State of Qt5 in distributions

[Steve Cossette]

Similar to Fedora in that regard. We usually keep things in as long as they
build.

Heck, we still got some pieces of kde4 in repos....

On Mon, Jun 1, 2026 at 5:57 PM Adriaan de Groot <groot at kde.org> wrote:

> 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.
>
> [ade]
>
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