These are not really needed for building Debian packages.

If you think you need them:

- Be sure to reach us Qt maintainers so we can learn from your use case.
- You are free to define the to OFF:

```bash
cmake -DQT_SKIP_AUTO_PLUGIN_INCLUSION=OFF -DQT_SKIP_AUTO_QML_PLUGIN_INCLUSION=OFF
```

debian/changelog

@@ -1,3 +1,15 @@
+qt6-base (6.6.0+dfsg-5.1) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
+
+  [ Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer ]
+  * Add two patches:
+    - be_verbose_on_plugin_inclusion.patch currently on upstream's Gerrit.
+    - enable_skip_plugins.patch
+    These set QT_SKIP_AUTO_PLUGIN_INCLUSION and
+    QT_SKIP_AUTO_QML_PLUGIN_INCLUSION to ON by default, thus avoiding
+    unnecesary build dependencies on plugins.
+
+ -- Debian Qt/KDE Maintainers <debian-qt-kde@lists.debian.org>  Wed, 01 Nov 2023 18:16:57 -0300
+
 qt6-base (6.6.0+dfsg-4) experimental; urgency=medium
 
   [ Patrick Franz ]

debian/patches/be_verbose_on_plugin_inclusion.patch

@@ -0,0 +1,82 @@
+From c8e2cdda704dbe2c381091fe687653cdf2b191ca Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: =?UTF-8?q?Lisandro=20Dami=C3=A1n=20Nicanor=20P=C3=A9rez=20Meyer?=
+ <perezmeyer@gmail.com>
+Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2023 21:41:59 -0300
+Subject: [PATCH] Be verbose on plugin inclusion, easy patch point for distros
+
+TL;DR: This creates two changes:
+
+1. Makes the plugin inclusion status more visible for builders for both Qt
+   itself and applications.
+2. Allows a simple patch-point for distros to change the default
+   (perhaps not ideal, but good enough).
+3. Does not changes the current behavior.
+
+As discussed both in the mailing list and privately with
+Alexandru Croitor and Joerg Bornemann this makes a lot os sense for Qt
+on static builds and when trying to find where the plugins are so they
+can be easily packaged up in order to distribute a build with all the
+dependencies on it.
+
+But at the same time it makes no sense for distributions building the
+libraries in dynamic mode as it forces unnecesary build time
+dependencies for for both Qt and applications like QML modules or even
+PostgreSQL! [0].
+
+[0] <https://sources.debian.org/src/martchus-qtutilities/6.10.0-1/cmake/modules/QtConfig.cmake/?hl=35#L35>
+
+Other approaches have been considered like not shipping specific CMake
+files, but this depends on the packager finding the right ones at the
+right time, and does not allows end users to change the behavior if they
+happen to need it.
+
+Change-Id: Id32fbc0cf0f289edd4426fb703cf1195288aacb4
+Gerrit: https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt/qtbase/+/515440
+---
+ cmake/QtPlugins.cmake.in         | 9 +++++++++
+ cmake/QtPostProcessHelpers.cmake | 9 +++++++++
+ 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+)
+
+diff --git a/cmake/QtPlugins.cmake.in b/cmake/QtPlugins.cmake.in
+index 405d5f37b9..c951eaae42 100644
+--- a/cmake/QtPlugins.cmake.in
++++ b/cmake/QtPlugins.cmake.in
+@@ -1,6 +1,15 @@
+ include_guard(DIRECTORY)
+ @QT_MODULE_PLUGIN_INCLUDES@
+ 
++# Distributions should probably change this default.
++if(NOT DEFINED QT_SKIP_AUTO_PLUGIN_INCLUSION)
++    set(QT_SKIP_AUTO_PLUGIN_INCLUSION OFF)
++endif()
++
++if(QT_REPO_MODULE_VERSION)
++    message(STATUS "Skip auto plugin inclusion is set to ${QT_SKIP_AUTO_PLUGIN_INCLUSION}")
++endif()
++
+ if(NOT QT_NO_CREATE_TARGETS AND NOT QT_SKIP_AUTO_PLUGIN_INCLUSION)
+     __qt_internal_include_plugin_packages(@QT_MODULE@)
+ endif()
+diff --git a/cmake/QtPostProcessHelpers.cmake b/cmake/QtPostProcessHelpers.cmake
+index 83bcabe49b..82a88565a6 100644
+--- a/cmake/QtPostProcessHelpers.cmake
++++ b/cmake/QtPostProcessHelpers.cmake
+@@ -446,6 +446,15 @@ function(qt_internal_create_plugins_auto_inclusion_files)
+ # TODO: Find a better way to deal with this, perhaps by using find_package() instead of include
+ # for the Qml PluginConfig.cmake files.
+ 
++# Distributions should probably change this default.
++if(NOT DEFINED QT_SKIP_AUTO_QML_PLUGIN_INCLUSION)
++    set(QT_SKIP_AUTO_QML_PLUGIN_INCLUSION OFF)
++endif()
++
++if(QT_REPO_MODULE_VERSION)
++    message(STATUS \"Skip auto QML plugin inclusion is set to \${QT_SKIP_AUTO_QML_PLUGIN_INCLUSION}\")
++endif()
++
+ file(GLOB __qt_qml_plugins_config_file_list \"\${CMAKE_CURRENT_LIST_DIR}/QmlPlugins/${INSTALL_CMAKE_NAMESPACE}*Config.cmake\")
+ if (__qt_qml_plugins_config_file_list AND NOT QT_SKIP_AUTO_QML_PLUGIN_INCLUSION)
+     # First round of inclusions ensure all qml plugin targets are brought into scope.
+-- 
+2.42.0
+

debian/patches/enable_skip_plugins.patch

@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+Description: Enable skipping plugins search at build time.
+ This patch sets
+ QT_SKIP_AUTO_PLUGIN_INCLUSION and QT_SKIP_AUTO_QML_PLUGIN_INCLUSION to ON
+ by default, thus avoiding unnecesary build dependencies on plugins.
+ .
+ The variables can still be set to OFF by the user at build time, allowing
+ them to find the packages if necessary. But if you need so for a Debian
+ package please reach the Qt maintainers first. We want to know why you
+ need to do so. Thanks in advance!
+Author: Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer <lisandro@debian.org>
+Forwarded: not-needed
+
+---
+ cmake/QtPlugins.cmake.in         |    2 +-
+ cmake/QtPostProcessHelpers.cmake |    2 +-
+ 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
+
+--- a/cmake/QtPlugins.cmake.in
++++ b/cmake/QtPlugins.cmake.in
+@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ include_guard(DIRECTORY)
+ 
+ # Distributions should probably change this default.
+ if(NOT DEFINED QT_SKIP_AUTO_PLUGIN_INCLUSION)
+-    set(QT_SKIP_AUTO_PLUGIN_INCLUSION OFF)
++    set(QT_SKIP_AUTO_PLUGIN_INCLUSION ON)
+ endif()
+ 
+ message(STATUS "Skip auto plugin inclusion is set to ${QT_SKIP_AUTO_PLUGIN_INCLUSION}")
+--- a/cmake/QtPostProcessHelpers.cmake
++++ b/cmake/QtPostProcessHelpers.cmake
+@@ -448,7 +448,7 @@ function(qt_internal_create_plugins_auto
+ 
+ # Distributions should probably change this default.
+ if(NOT DEFINED QT_SKIP_AUTO_QML_PLUGIN_INCLUSION)
+-    set(QT_SKIP_AUTO_QML_PLUGIN_INCLUSION OFF)
++    set(QT_SKIP_AUTO_QML_PLUGIN_INCLUSION ON)
+ endif()
+ 
+ message(STATUS \"Skip auto QML plugin inclusion is set to \${QT_SKIP_AUTO_QML_PLUGIN_INCLUSION}\")

debian/patches/series

@@ -4,12 +4,16 @@ libxkbcommon_1.6.0.diff
 # Needs to be fixed upstream.
 Add-SH-detection.patch
 
+# Pushed to gerrit
+be_verbose_on_plugin_inclusion.patch
+
 # Debian specific
 remove_privacy_breaches.diff
 build_path_embedded_qtbuildinternalsextra_cmake.patch
 cross.patch
 remove_rpath_from_examples.patch
 forkfd_grow_stack_upwards_on_hppa.patch
+enable_skip_plugins.patch
 
 # Don't use yield on CPUs that might not support it
 armel-noyield.patch