On Wed, Feb 11, 2026 at 10:57:34AM +0100, Landry Breuil wrote:
> hi,
> 
> long story short, gmpc is dead upstream since years, and is slated for
> removal if we do like debian and plan to deprecate/remove Gtk+2, but
> https://github.com/DaveDavenport/gmpc has the port to Gtk+3, and debian
> patches port from devel/libsoup to devel/libsoup3. Same thing for
> libmpd, update it to latest git commit. For gmpc-plugins, disable all
> plugins but shout, since that's the only one i'm using.
> 
> upstream gmpc moved lyrics/metadata collection to audio/glyr which i
> imported in ports 10+ years ago, and this one is also dead upstream. I
> started hacking at it to disable all dead providers and reenable only
> the working ones, so far lastfm and musicbrainz (which includes porting
> from MB API v1 to v2, v1 disappeared in ... 2018). Who doesnt love xml
> parsing with strstr in plain C ?
> 
> all that to say, if you still use/love gmpc, speak now or stay silent
> forever :) Feedback/testing of the attached jumbo patch welcome.
> audio/glyr will come later when enough is working.

You probably want to add some LIB_DEPENDS in gmpc-plugins.
As you have associated WANTLIB.

-- 
Antoine

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