[Bug 285503] x11-themes/qt5-style-plugins reinstall needed after qt5 upgrade

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--- Comment #3 from Jason E. Hale <jhale at FreeBSD.org> ---
(In reply to Peter TKATCHENKO from comment #2)
> The history of private API is really strange, the last time I had problems with VLC and dsbmc, I'm really surprised that they use private API.

At a quick glance, I can't find any private Qt headers (grepping source for any
_p.h) currently being used in VLC nor in DSBMC. Perhaps they were at some
point, but digging through their history is more than I'm willing to do for the
sake of this conversation. I don't know anything about DSBMC, but VLC is very
popular and I don't recall any recent problems (I did the last update for that
back in June). The usage of the Qt private API still persists in Qt6 projects,
though, and I have to deal with those too.

> IMHO, there are many many projects that cannot migrate to qt6. I hope, KDE will continue to maintain qt5, otherwise we'll loose many software...

No hard deadline has yet been set for Qt5 expiration, but hey python27 expired
over 4 years ago and it's still with us. Seriously, though, if your favorite
Qt5 app hasn't been ported to Qt6 yet, bug the maintainer of the project (not
the maintainer of the port). Dead projects are going to be trimmed like the
were for Qt3 and Qt4. I still have a Qt4 app that I miss, but it's gone and I
moved on. Obviously, we're going to wait for very popular projects like VLC and
Chromium, but more obscure projects are going to get steamrolled in no
uncertain terms. It's irresponsible to keep potentially vulnerable software
available for general consumption any longer than it has to be.

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