Comment # 15 on bug 1002036 from Fabian Vogt

(In reply to Wolfgang Bauer from comment #14)
> (In reply to Iakov Karpov from comment #13)
> > (In reply to Wolfgang Bauer from comment #12)
> > Well, if it really is an upstream problem, which requires some custom
> > patches, I'm OK if openSUSE decides against supporting it. But it's rather
> > disappointing that upstream still hasn't adopted this, doesn't Qt devs want
> > their private kitten GIFs collestion to consume less disk space?
> 
> Well, upstream Qt have "adopted" this, in Qt 5.7.0.
> 
> But as the patch has been added to the devel project for 42.2 (KDE:Qt56)
> already, it should end up in the main 42.2 repos at some point too.

It's not quite that easy, the devel project for Qt is SLE-12-SP2:GA.
With some discussion it's likely to get accepted anyway,though.