• Fwd: [gentoo-dev] Please actively drop support for Qt5 wherever possibl

    From Andreas Sturmlechner@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jan 1 22:50:14 2025
    Allow me to re-emphasize this topic 4 months later:

    - Most of KDE projects have ported away to Qt6.
    - No other DE/WM based on Qt5 is left in ::gentoo to benefit from the option.
    - Therefore I do not plan to put any more time into Qt5 packaging, much less
    backporting LTS fixes to KDE Qt repositories.
    - GCC, ICU, Python, ... may at any future release break Qt5, QtWebEngine in
    particular.

    This is the work list:

    https://qa-reports.gentoo.org/output/genrdeps/rindex/dev-qt/qtcore

    If you recognise your package(s) in there, please drop Qt5 in favor of Qt6 aggressively. If there is no Qt6-based upstream release yet, bug upstream
    about it. They may not even know yet this is important.

    Happy New Year,
    Andreas

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