Proper way to deploy 3rdparty Qt Quick plugins

I am currently using Qt to develop a cross-platform application which uses a 3rdparty Qt Quick library, Kirigami.

To build a distributable image, dmg, I use macdeployqt. I want Kirigami to be included into the image, but macdeployqt only adds Qt's own QML modules. According to the macdeployqt manual:
-qmldir=<path> : Scan for QML imports in the given path.
This argument is used to specify the application's qml source directory to be scanned for import * statements. It can accept multiple paths, but these are not used as library search paths.

To specify a library search path, macdeployqt would need to pass it as an -importPath argument to qmlimportscanner, but it only passes Qt's default library location: http://code.qt.io/cgit/qt/qttools.git/tree/src/macdeployqt/shared/shared.cpp#n1236

As a hack one can create a link to the custom location from inside the Qt installation, and that's what I use for now, but I believe there has to be a better way.

I faced the same issue with linuxdeployqt and authored a patch that allows to provide a list of QML module locations to linuxdeployqt. The discussion and detailed explanation ia available here.

Linuxdeployqt is heavily based on macdeployqt, so I thought I can fix the same issue upstream to avoid hacks on macOS as well.