App from the AUR not starting? You might need to rebuild it (ICU 73)

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Yesterday brought a large number of updates of applications/packages rebuilt against the updated icu. If an application you’ve installed from the AUR is not starting today, you might need to uninstall it, and then rebuild it so that it is built with icu 73.2-1.

In my case it was strawberry-qt5, so I uninstalled it with sudo pacman -R strawberry-qt5 and then reinstalled it with yay -S strawberry-qt5, making sure to use the cleanbuild option.

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What is the difference between strawberryfrom extraand strawberry-qt5 from AUR?

swh on Endeavour OS ~                                                                                                                                                                13:00:14
➜ yay -Ss strawberry
aur/strawberry-qt5-git 1.0.1.r41.gd2075001-1 (+0 0.00) 
    A music player aimed at audio enthusiasts and music collectors (qt5 git version)
aur/strawberry-lite-git 1.0.17.r16.g780b9826-1 (+0 0.00) 
    A music player aimed at audio enthusiasts and music collectors, fewer fautures, Gstreamer and alsa only
aur/strawberry-lite 1.0.17-1 (+2 0.00) 
    A music player aimed at audio enthusiasts and music collectors, fewer fautures, Gstreamer and alsa only
aur/strawberry-git 1.0.14.r16.gd02de728-1 (+4 0.00) 
    A music player aimed at audio enthusiasts and music collectors
aur/strawberry-full-git 1.0.17.r14.ge314545f-1 (+10 0.00) 
    A music player aimed at audio enthusiasts and music collectors, all options and engines
aur/strawberry-qt5 1.0.17-2 (+17 1.51) 
    A music player aimed at audio enthusiasts and music collectors (Qt5 version)
extra/strawberry 1.0.17-3 (5.8 MiB 12.1 MiB) (Installiert)
    A music player aimed at audio enthusiasts and music collectors
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strawberry is built with Qt 6, which is the upstream preference.

strawberry-qt5 builds with Qt 5 (and takes age to do it :snail: ) so it looks more integrated in KDE Plasma 5.

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That explains everything. Thanks a lot!

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What happens when qt 6 is implemented then. Does strawberry-qt5 automatically get updated?

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I will switch to the strawberry package when Plasma 6 is released and available for Arch. The maintainer of strawberry-qt5 in the AUR may or may not decide to continue with it, but does not need to switch it to Qt6 as this would be superfluous.

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