State of Qt5 in distributions

[Andreas Sturmlechner]

On Montag, 1. Juni 2026 23:57:09 Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit Adriaan de Groot 
wrote:
> There's some things like games/chessx (which is explicitly Qt5 upstream,
> even though it was released in 2026).

Is it really[1]? I packaged 1.6.2 as Qt6-based in January 2025[2], at least 
Fedora seem to do so too[3].

> We have a (IMO bad) habit of keeping stuff around forever as 
> long as someone's name is on it.

I know the feeling all too well, and it causes a lot of busywork on those 
having to provide the dependencies / working on the cleanup.

Regards


[1] https://sourceforge.net/p/chessx/mailman/message/58813821/
[2] https://bugs.gentoo.org/947250
[3] https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/chessx/blob/rawhide/f/chessx.spec
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