[QGIS-Developer] two packaging questions

[Tobias Schula]

On Monday, 9 June 2025, 11:08:14 CEST Richard Duivenvoorde via QGIS-Developer 
wrote:
> I'd say: QGIS4 is Qt6-only, but we need to have a Qt6 option (be it 3.40 or
> higher) available for (Linux) python devs.
> 
> Note that, thanks to Juergen, Windows users/devs already have the option to
> test their plugins with an osgeo4w Qt6 build (see QGISQT6-OSGeo4W-3.42..msi
> on https://download.qgis.org/downloads/)

Jürgen is also working on Qt6 support for Debian:
> https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/62128

Then you can install the Qt5- and the Qt6-versions alongside each other. 
Packagers can then use the new cmake options to also offer both builds.


Regards

-- 
Tobias A Schula
Forestry Expert

geospatial at schula.org
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