[mythtv] When will we deprecate Qt 5 and qmake/configure?

[Gary Buhrmaster]

On Sun, Aug 2, 2026 at 8:24 PM Paul Harrison via mythtv-dev
<mythtv-dev at mythtv.org> wrote:

> Has anything changed since the last time this was discussed? The problem
> with removing support for configure/qmake is most if not all the
> packages created for the various distros use it. Yes they can be updated
> to use cmake but with Myth falling out of popularity a lot of the
> packager maintainers no longer use MythTV themselves so are they going
> to bother to update to cmake or just say sod it lets not bother? Could
> be another nail in the coffin for the project?

All recent RPM based distros presume that when
using cmake, that %cmake_build and %cmake_install
work.  That means supporting --build and --install
separately (and also -B and -S)

And they also download the projects tarballs, which
are not directly supported by the project due to
the cmakes presumption of being in repo.

Yes, one can misuse other approaches, but that may
also require packagers to update the (in ELF)
package notes for providing proper debugging
info, which is a non-trivial job (basically it is a
hard stop for most).

As to what packagers will do, if you make it easy
to use the distro packaging tools, you are likely
to have a higher success.