State of Qt5 in distributions

[Adriaan de Groot]

On Monday, June 1, 2026 10:53:37 PM Central European Summer Time Max 
Brazhnikov wrote:
> > - 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

Following up on Max's comments, there's plenty of Qt5-based software in 
FreeBSD ports. We have a (IMO bad) habit of keeping stuff around forever as 
long as someone's name is on it.

There's some things like games/chessx (which is explicitly Qt5 upstream, even 
though it was released in 2026). Or net-im/ricochet and net-im/spectral (ok, 
that one is mine, and I see it hasn't had a release in ages, so NeoChat should 
probably be listed as a replacement and the port removed).

Then there's KF5-based things like graphics/kamerka. Again, not "owned" by the 
KDE folks at FreeBSD, but apparently there's someone who wanted a QML-based 
webcam photo-snap application which still refers to anonsvn in the README. 
Huh.

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