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) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A69DF15812D for ; Thu, 02 Jan 2025 19:56:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 059B2E08A2; Thu, 02 Jan 2025 19:56:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (woodpecker.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (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 pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C206AE0880 for ; Thu, 02 Jan 2025 19:56:06 +0000 (UTC) From: Sam James To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: Fwd: [gentoo-dev] Please actively drop support for Qt5 wherever possible In-Reply-To: (Zoltan Puskas's message of "Thu, 2 Jan 2025 03:13:22 -0800") Organization: Gentoo References: <3346777.aeNJFYEL58@tuxbrain.fritz.box> User-Agent: mu4e 1.12.7; emacs 31.0.50 Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2025 19:56:03 +0000 Message-ID: <87ttahuh0s.fsf@gentoo.org> 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: text/plain X-Archives-Salt: 9cebd660-7b15-4045-a0e2-50829e537f9c X-Archives-Hash: 6277d3c9c26c2efe5bc3ea41737a637c Zoltan Puskas writes: >> >> So, removing Qt5 will break computers of many users, including my computer. >> In the course of many years of existence of Qt5 a large number of useful >> programs have been created; not all of them have been ported to Qt6. Are we >> going to throw away all this wealth? >> > > I have to agree with Andrey here, the list contains quite a few items that are > likely used by a lot of users and killing all these apps is going to be painful. > > Is there a timeline for killing QT5 completely or will just QT5 be stuck at the > current version and patch level? > > I understand that QT5 is considered deprecated, but doesn't KDE project still > maintain QT 5.15 for the time being? Can't we just keep that version? > > Even if we report bugs upstream, it may take time to port all these projects, > especially the larger ones or if they are a single person project. We best get started now then, which is the purpose of Andreas' email. This is the warning to start filing those bugs and asking upstreams to port if not done already. Not that we're going to last-rite such packages tomorrow.