[Maintenance] Drop KF5/Qt5 packages. Migrate to KF6/Qt6.

[xiota]

Arch switched to KF6/Qt6 a couple months ago. Manjaro switched recently. Qt5 is long past end of life.

This issue serves as advance notice. Changes will occur over the next few months, or longer. Probably won't be complete until after the v4-build transition.

• Planning to switch to KF6/Qt6 packages when possible.
• Planning to drop KF5/Qt5 packages eventually.
  • Should avoid adding any new KF5/Qt5 packages.
  • Will keep working KF5/Qt5 packages for now.
    • Will drop KF5/Qt6 packages that break, rather than try to fix via interfere or other means.

Exceptions:

• Maintainer packages with no Qt6 alternative. These will be kept working for as long as possible.
• Packages that build Qt5 packages alongside versions for other toolkits. Attempts to fix will be made. However, the Qt5 component may be disabled if fixing is deemed pointless or hopeless.

[Technetium1]

octopi is now on this list due to the dependency qt-sudo. Edit: no longer an issue

[dr460nf1r3]

This is a debacle 👀 though the AUR page provides this PKGBUILD: https://github.com/yochananmarqos/pkgbuilds/blob/master/qt-sudo/PKGBUILD

[xiota]

There's no rush to drop packages. There's still time for maintainers to update.

The maintainer of octopi has been working on it.

qt5-webkit is ultimately doomed though. Will have to see which dependents can be updated to Qt6.

• csxcad-git # doesn't use Qt
• goldendict-git # dropping; use goldendict-webengine-pr-git
• olivia-git # dropping
• smtube # dropping
• wkhtmltopdf # dropping

[dr460nf1r3]

octopi is now on this list due to the dependency qt-sudo.

Got updated: https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/commit/?h=qt-sudo&id=3da895e7725c39cc46c6352ff886776131caf68a

[Technetium1]

Interfere applied to Octopi thanks @dr460nf1r3 🎉 https://github.com/chaotic-aur/interfere/commit/ce4d68b1e00c092abe390bd9e2d3780c3310bd79

[thotypous]

• csxcad-git

This one is specially important since we use openems-git for some classes, which depends on csxcad-git.

[xiota]

openems-git and csxcad-git don't use Qt/webkit. Switched them to custom pkgbuilds via interfere.

Related qcsxcad-git and appcsxcad-git do use Qt.

[xiota]

Dropping qt5-webkit because it looks too complicated to fix. It was deprecated years ago, and the project keeping it alive quit ~2020.

[Technetium1]

Asked about Qt6 migration of megasync https://github.com/meganz/MEGAsync/issues/954#issuecomment-2137822766

[thotypous]

Is there something we can do about rstudio-desktop? It's actually pretty important for the UFSCar arch image

[Technetium1]

ventoy-bin is now on this list. I've created an issue because I uncovered much larger underlying problems with their CI: https://github.com/ventoy/Ventoy/issues/2858

[xiota]

@thotypous The maintainer of rstudio-desktop has found a workaround for the issues. I'll add it back under the Paulo section.

[xiota]

ksmoothdock is on chopping block. Leaving it for now.

[xiota]

octopi-git is effectively unmaintained.

[xiota]

ms-office-online depends on orphaned jade-application-kit, which depends on pyside2/Qt5.

[SteavenGamerYT]

pls dont drop qt5 packages, they are my favorite

[xiota]

@SteavenGamerYT Programs and packages that are not updated to Qt6 are basically unmaintained. There has not been a systematic purge of Qt5 packages. Most packages that have been dropped so far had other problems, like failure on rebuild.