Re: Decommissioning Qt 5 CI
Christoph GrĂ¼ninger <[email protected]> Thu, 30 Jul 2026 23:33:44 +0200
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Hi! > > Seems that some distributions are actually going ahead with full > > removal or have already done so which matches up with the view that > > it is well and truly dead? > > I do not get the feeling that it's "well and truly dead" at all from the > thread; at least not yet. It seems very much still in the "people are > working hard to put it to rest" stage. I asked openSuse and it does not sound as if they are planning to retire Qt 5 soon [1]: > dependson libqt5-qtbase | wc -l > 432 > > That feels even more optimistic than eliminating GTK2 (which > lists 231 dependents) I agree with Ben that we should try to drop Qt 5 in CI. It is a chicken and egg problem. The projects don't feel any pressure to finally move to Qt 6 thus the numbers don't get down. What about Krita, is there a Qt 6 release available? [1] https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/KYPVVTNSDHHGU6AVSCYFQ4NSUO6G3HTR/ Bye Christoph -- Most customers will not accept source code with compile errors in it. Dan Saks, CppCon 2016 (https://youtu.be/D7Sd8A6_fYU)