I am more than ok for this.
On Thu, Nov 6, 2025 at 8:35 AM Antonio Rojas <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > Qt5 is EOL since May. In particular, qt5-webengine's Chromium ships with > unfixed vulnerabilities. Its code is bitrotting, which also makes it a > costly package to maintain due to the frequent API changes in its > dependencies (I had to give up on system ffpmeg and switch to its ancient > bundled version, and currently doesn't build against ICU 78). I therefore > think it's wise to drop it from our repos. Its remaining reverse > dependencies are: > > csoundqt - can be built without it by disabling remote debugging support, > MR at [1] > fcitx-libpinyin - archived upstream for over a year > globalprotect-openconnect - very out of date, a new version switching to > wbkitgtk and rust is available in testing. > kchmviewer - dead upstream (no activity in 4 years) > qmc2 - dead upstream (no activity in 1.5 years) > wiznote - dead upstream (no activity in 4 years) > openshot - the only case of a (semi-)maintained application still unported > to Qt6 - there was an attempt 3 years ago [2] aborted due to some drama and > no signs of new efforts since then, porting is non-trivial. > > If there are no objections (that include an offer to pick up maintenance > of the package), I will drop it and all its unported reverse dependencies > in a few days. > > [1] > https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/csoundqt/-/merge_requests/1 > [2] https://github.com/OpenShot/openshot-qt/pull/4836 > > >
