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Appimage: QT6 update broke older environments #742

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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Until 66eb733 it was possible to just use the appimage on any system I'm using (which includes RHEL8 and older Debian), as long as QT's dependencies (not that much but at least opengl) were installed via the system package manager.

With QT6 there are more dependencies like libwayland, but the biggest issue is the glibc dependency.

Describe the solution you'd like
Either provide an appimage which contains the glibc required (and also package those dependencies for the debuginfo tarball) or (possibly much easier) provide two appimages - one using the old definition and QT5, the other "latest edge" as it is now.

Describe alternatives you've considered
Use a working old appimage - but that's quite old already; self-built... that's a lot of dependencies - which is the reason for providing the AppImage in the first place :-)

Additional context
AppImage suggests in its forum to use tools like appimage-builder to also include system libraries like glibc in the AppImage (doing so may also make bundling things like libgl/libwayland easier I don't know).

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