Maybe a hint?

Posted Jan 14, 2026 21:02 UTC (Wed) by plugwash (subscriber, #29694)
In reply to: Maybe a hint? by mussell
Parent article: Debian discusses removing GTK 2 for forky

> Distros don't package old versions of Qt since it's too tightly interconnected

I can't speak for other distros, but Debian has packaged multiple versions of QT for most of the last decade.

* 2013 - QT5 added.
* 2020 - QT4 removed.
* 2022 - QT6 added