From: Antoine Jacoutot <ajacoutot@bsdfrog.org>
Subject: Re: Remove Qt5 support in security/pinentry
To: ports@openbsd.org, Rafael Sadowski <rafael@sizeofvoid.org>
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2026 08:02:27 +0200

On October 13, 2026 6:28:13 PM GMT+02:00, Rafael Sadowski <rafael@sizeofvoid.org> wrote:
>It's time to remove more and more Qt5/kf5 dependencies. Would like to
>start with pinentry-qt5.
>
>Feedback, OK?
>
>diff --git a/security/pinentry/Makefile b/security/pinentry/Makefile
>index 5046d2a45cc..c055489c80a 100644
>--- a/security/pinentry/Makefile
>+++ b/security/pinentry/Makefile
>@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
> COMMENT-main = 	PIN or passphrase entry dialog (ncurses interface)
> COMMENT-gnome3 =PIN or passphrase entry dialog (GNOME 3 interface)
>-COMMENT-qt5 =	PIN or passphrase entry dialog (Qt5 interface)
> COMMENT-qt6 =	PIN or passphrase entry dialog (Qt6 interface)
> 
> VERSION = 	1.3.3
>@@ -35,17 +34,6 @@ WANTLIB-gnome3 += gck-2 gcr-4 p11-kit
> LIB_DEPENDS-gnome3 =	${LIB_DEPENDS} \
> 			x11/gnome/gcr4
> 
>-WANTLIB-qt5 += ${WANTLIB}
>-WANTLIB-qt5 += ${COMPILER_LIBCXX} KF5WaylandClient Qt5Core Qt5Gui
>-WANTLIB-qt5 += Qt5Widgets Qt5X11Extras X11 m
>-
>-LIB_DEPENDS-qt5 =	${LIB_DEPENDS} \
>-			devel/kf5/kwayland \
>-			x11/qt5/qtbase \
>-			x11/qt5/qtx11extras
>-RUN_DEPENDS-qt5 =	${FULLPKGNAME-main}:${FULLPKGPATH-main} \
>-			devel/desktop-file-utils
>-
> WANTLIB-qt6 += ${WANTLIB}
> WANTLIB-qt6 += ${COMPILER_LIBCXX} Qt6Core Qt6Gui Qt6Widgets m
> WANTLIB-qt6 += KF6GuiAddons KF6WindowSystem
>@@ -66,14 +54,15 @@ CONFIGURE_ARGS = 	--enable-pinentry-curses \
> 			--disable-pinentry-qt4 \
> 			--disable-pinentry-emacs \
> 			--disable-pinentry-gtk2 \
>+			--disable-pinentry-qt5 \
> 			--disable-pinentry-efl \
> 			--disable-pinentry-tqt \
> 			--disable-pinentry-fltk
> 
>-MULTI_PACKAGES =	-main -gnome3 -qt5 -qt6
>+MULTI_PACKAGES =	-main -gnome3 -qt6
> 
>-PSEUDO_FLAVORS =	no_gnome3 no_qt5 no_qt6 bootstrap
>-FLAVOR ?=		no_gnome3 no_qt5 no_qt6 bootstrap
>+PSEUDO_FLAVORS =	no_gnome3 no_qt6 bootstrap
>+FLAVOR ?=		no_gnome3 no_qt6 bootstrap
> 
> .include <bsd.port.arch.mk>
> 
>@@ -81,9 +70,6 @@ FLAVOR ?=		no_gnome3 no_qt5 no_qt6 bootstrap
> CONFIGURE_ARGS +=	--disable-pinentry-gnome3
> .endif
> 
>-.if !${BUILD_PACKAGES:M-qt5}
>-CONFIGURE_ARGS +=	--disable-pinentry-qt5
>-.endif
> 
> .if !${BUILD_PACKAGES:M-qt6}
> # XXX could use the followings once we have them available as packages:
>@@ -98,7 +84,7 @@ post-install:
> 	${SUBST_CMD} -c -o ${BINOWN} -g ${BINGRP} -m ${BINMODE} \
> 		${FILESDIR}/pinentry-wrapper.in ${PREFIX}/bin/pinentry
> 
>-# pinentry.png is only installed by the qt5 and qt6 install targets;
>+# pinentry.png is only installed by the qt6 install targets;
> # to prevent juggling with PFRAG and PLIST conflict or to create a dedicated
> # subpackage, just install it unconditionally
> 	${INSTALL_DATA_DIR} ${PREFIX}/share/pixmaps/
>diff --git a/security/pinentry/pkg/DESCR-qt5 b/security/pinentry/pkg/DESCR-qt5
>deleted file mode 100644
>index 0aeaf200728..00000000000
>--- a/security/pinentry/pkg/DESCR-qt5
>+++ /dev/null
>@@ -1 +0,0 @@
>-This package provides a Qt5 interface to pinentry.
>diff --git a/security/pinentry/pkg/PLIST-qt5 b/security/pinentry/pkg/PLIST-qt5
>deleted file mode 100644
>index c1f62b83e5b..00000000000
>--- a/security/pinentry/pkg/PLIST-qt5
>+++ /dev/null
>@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
>-@bin bin/pinentry-qt5
>-share/applications/org.gnupg.pinentry-qt5.desktop
>-@tag update-desktop-database
>

It could benefit from an upgrade path. 
--
Antoine