| 19 May 2025 |
 Grimmauld (any/all) | dropping pyqt5 affects some packages i genuinely care about. Notably, freecad (can be bumped to just use qt6 instead) and opensnitch-ui (i am listed maintainer and that didn't port yet...) | 15:45:59 |
 K900 | In reply to @emilazy:matrix.org
do we have an update on the fate of Qt 5 WebEngine? It's being maintained for the time being | 15:46:10 |
| K900 | In reply to @grimmauld:grapevine.grimmauld.de
dropping pyqt5 affects some packages i genuinely care about. Notably, freecad (can be bumped to just use qt6 instead) and opensnitch-ui (i am listed maintainer and that didn't port yet...) *pyside5 | 15:46:24 |
 emily | by who? | 15:46:36 |
| K900 | pyqt5 can exist, I don't think anything but plasma uses pyside5 | 15:46:42 |
| emily | the Qt EOL is soon, right? | 15:46:42 |
| K900 | In reply to @emilazy:matrix.org
by who? Qt | 15:46:45 |
| emily | https://www.qt.io/blog/extended-security-maintenance-for-qt-5.15-begins-may-2025 ok cool | 15:47:10 |
| emily | wait no | 15:47:19 |
| emily | that's commercial-only? | 15:47:21 |
| emily | it looks to me like we have 7 days. | 15:47:32 |
| emily | (and that's not an old post, it's from a couple months ago) | 15:47:57 |
| K900 | It seems they will keep publishing patches for qtwebengine at least | 15:48:09 |
| emily | do you have a source for that? 😅 | 15:48:23 |
| K900 | Somewhere on the mailing lists | 15:49:04 |
| Grimmauld (any/all) | we should still drop it as soon as we can tbh | 15:50:18 |
| Grimmauld (any/all) | or at least slap it with known vulns | 15:50:27 |
| emily | why? | 15:52:08 |
| emily | if Qt is patching it then it's as good as it is now | 15:52:13 |
| emily | the question is just whether they are | 15:52:16 |
| K900 | Well it's still a really old chromium version | 15:52:58 |
| K900 | Which is not great | 15:53:03 |
| emily | sure. it's not great now either | 15:55:29 |
| emily | Qt 6 WebEngine isn't that great either IIRC | 15:55:37 |
| emily | but not knownVulnerabilities territory imo. if there are no known vulnerabilities and ones that become known are addressed. | 15:56:03 |
| emily | I mean I'd like to see all of Qt 5 gone but last time I looked at qtwebengine users there was still a lot of stuff. | 15:56:27 |
| K900 | Honestly | 15:56:31 |
| emily | for instance, uh, our installer? | 15:56:36 |
| K900 | I'm just looking at the users of qtwebengine5 | 15:56:37 |
| emily | though someone should finish moving that to Qt 6 | 15:56:45 |
