Phasing out kf5

demm

This is mostly a reminder for all to run pacman Qm on a regular base on this rolling distribution.
Running that say, once a month, will show you which packages are no longer in the repository (it will also show self-build packages).
Especially at this stage of moving all away from Qt5/kf5, you will notice that quite regularly another kf5 package has been removed.
Example today, tellico, heaptrack, k3b & rkward moved to Qt6/kf6 builds. A few other kf5 based have been rebuild to remove kf5 packages that really don't work on Plasma 6 (kactivities 5 for example), so another batch of kf5 packages are no longer needed or in the repository.

Don't expect kf5 to be completely gone anytime soon, it will probably still be needed this whole year.

kaos_user

Hello, thanks for the tip.

That command lists the following packages on my system:
bluez-firmware 1.2-11
croeso6 2.1-1
khtml 5.115.0-1
kjs 5.115.0-1
kopete 23.08.4-1
samsung-uld-printer 1.00.39_01.17-1
syncthing 1.27.1-1

but I can't understand if I should remove them or not. Samsung drivers and Syncthing are installed from KCP, the all the others are repository-installed packages I think

demm

Whatever you build & installed yourself, is up to you to keep or remove (KCP includes that, not maintained or build by KaOS).
Those that were not build by you, should be removed, since they are no longer maintained, no longer needed & no longer used.
So, all but the last 2 had been removed from the repo.

demm

The year is almost ending, but Qt5/kf5 are still in KaOS.....
The last week quite a few more have been moved to Qt6, so stacks like qscintilla Qt5 based will be removed.
KaOS won't wait for all apps to be ported to Qt6 before removing those. Qt5 has been end of life for years now, those apps that have not started the porting can be considered dead too.
So, plan is to wait for a working Krita Qt6/kf6 port (work has been ongoing upstream since early this year), after that, expect Qt5/kf5 to be removed from KaOS.

bvbfan

Okteta isn't ready also, there is a Kf6 branch which is outdated, there is issue tracking some porting issues
https://invent.kde.org/utilities/okteta/-/issues/5

bvbfan

After qt5-script removal okteta doesn't start anymore, it should be reverted or okteta to be removed as well. In the issue above the biggest challenge is porting qt-script to new implementation since some API isn't exist any more.

demm

bvbfan Yes, qt5-script will be re-instated, was removed by error (kross still needs it too).