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globalprotect-openconnect - very out of date, a new version switching to 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


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