On Fri, 2022-09-16 at 18:12 -0600, Dan Bungert wrote: > ##### qtav / matrix-mirage (LP: #1989613) ##### > > "QtAV is no longer maintained" per > https://github.com/wang-bin/QtAV/blob/master/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE#L19 > > It does have a reverse dependency from matrix-mirage, which itself > pseudo-unmaintained. Also, these packages are either Orphaned in > Debian or on > their way. > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1004628#16 > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1013409 > > Please see the LP for a longer form answer, but I believe that > removal is the > right choice.
qtav was a dependency of digikam (another high-profile application), which now FTBFS/dep-waits due to this removal. I had been keeping this one alive with 8.0.0 git snapshots which kept its ffmpeg 5 compatibility (as the 7.x series was ffmpeg5 was incompatible), but without qtav this surely kills digikam, which means all that work I had put into it was all for naught. I am severely disappointed in this, because now Ubuntu Studio users are very likely without their primary photo organization software, and I'm running out of time and options. I initially had two proposals that worked with ffmpeg 5 to keep it in the archive: * Use the 7.x (stable), disable a/v capabilities and keep it in the archive, or * Switch to the master branch of 8.0 and use git snapshots to keep it compatible with ffmpeg5. Discussions between Steve Langasek, Rik Mills, and myself went with the latter option. However, with the removal of qtav, that option has disappeared. Right now, my last upload is in dep-wait status, and an attempt to rebuild FTBFS without libqtav-dev. Attempts to build with the the a/v capablitites disabled have proved fruitless as well. It appears that qtav was a hard dependency here. If I report this to the upstream developers of digikam, all I'm going to hear is, "You should never have moved away from ffmpeg 4 in the first place." Moving to the snap of digikam isn't an option either as it's maintained directly by KDE, so this isn't a situation where I can contact them to have a "stable/ubuntu-22.10" track opened, and who knows what other snap components need to be included. I think we can all agree this ffmpeg 5 transition has been a train wreck. So far, with audacity and digikam, we are losing two high- profile applications, and both very late in the cycle. -- Erich Eickmeyer Project Leader - Ubuntu Studio Member - Ubuntu Community Council
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