From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1395B15812D for ; Wed, 01 Jan 2025 21:50:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 27A29E078A; Wed, 01 Jan 2025 21:50:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [IPv6:2001:470:ea4a:1:5054:ff:fec7:86e4]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D68FEE077A for ; Wed, 01 Jan 2025 21:50:18 +0000 (UTC) From: Andreas Sturmlechner To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Fwd: [gentoo-dev] Please actively drop support for Qt5 wherever possible Date: Wed, 01 Jan 2025 22:50:14 +0100 Message-ID: <3346777.aeNJFYEL58@tuxbrain.fritz.box> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart3353159.44csPzL39Z"; micalg="pgp-sha512"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: cc479255-f573-42f2-8714-516c3692c2c9 X-Archives-Hash: 80708a5fd8629cc9e4556d8338be96ff --nextPart3353159.44csPzL39Z Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; protected-headers="v1" From: Andreas Sturmlechner To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Date: Wed, 01 Jan 2025 22:50:14 +0100 Message-ID: <3346777.aeNJFYEL58@tuxbrain.fritz.box> MIME-Version: 1.0 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 --nextPart3353159.44csPzL39Z Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQITBAABCgB9FiEESn1gz6RHOTQPAoX/ASQjMY0fts0FAmd1uJZfFIAAAAAALgAo aXNzdWVyLWZwckBub3RhdGlvbnMub3BlbnBncC5maWZ0aGhvcnNlbWFuLm5ldDRB N0Q2MENGQTQ0NzM5MzQwRjAyODVGRjAxMjQyMzMxOEQxRkI2Q0QACgkQASQjMY0f ts2TtAwAzo0grpSsQ+zRMmFXr2UQ+s1engDLtoO78tob+6sYSD2OaSEnEvkQwe01 iU/YOdKVvaM71yJCYhXKV24cgeSI/cuZj3HJsWKJfnhlYsOVcIKG60WohLpJUp5+ 6FrcXDZ/impuh0h8powINjZvii/nk4zJdHft6c0FC6UZlK+3uD+156FIfynmmJRg j/HzB+jZg5dNwyy57s5qCqO5gnINEmdomi1DvtNShdvyaQf6zEsGAJp8ILWTzMVW Q4H9GoyOTQDj1EHGpYZTXsX9ie+oUeUTqttZNa/G+1cHzlBFXPL8KasF4qWgxMDh dRdf1j4mWMS2ZdCOl1fFnkqwovB/okth1Amu+o44ye0zsfVKWTjXEa4x8su/4+M6 v8vEgAKLVmQpmYHzcoba5X5gM1AHegX8s2ZcZ21rtr3cSosNRaRknxAek/R9br71 UInichcl+b8vtJbkiyF7AmxaWDIZk5KYaIuWMJqeH9yBpJoRmqyKZg4b4IN/NpEw O/B2NegW =oOia -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart3353159.44csPzL39Z--