State of Qt5 in distributions

[Max Brazhnikov]

On Mon, 1 Jun 2026 21:04:46 +0200 Nicolas Fella wrote:
> most of you probably want to get rid of Qt5 in your distributions, or 
> have already done so. Since this also affects what we are doing upstream 
> I wanted to ask where you are with that.
> 
> Specifically:
> 
> - Are you still shipping any Qt5-based software at all?

Yes, we are. For FreeBSD we provide around 350 Qt5- and 630 Qt6-based packages.
These numbers exclude Qt itself and Frameworks packages.

> - Are you still shipping Qt5-based KDE software (excluding the bits and 
> pieces to support Qt5-based software like breeze and plasma-integration)?

We ship the latest Plasma/Gear/Frameworks and last Qt5-based Frameworks.

Speaking of software hosted by invent.kde.org. Some projects have been
already ported to Qt6, however there are no Qt6 releases yet, e.g.:
graphics/kxstitch
office/kbibtex
utilities/krename

> - Anything we as KDE can do to help with the process?

It would be nice to have tarballs for software that has been ported to Qt6.

Cheers,
Max