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audex package

Audex - port to Qt5/KF5 or remove from zesty archive (please now remove)

Bug #1659934 reported by Rik Mills
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This bug affects 3 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
audex (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Andy Whitcroft

Bug Description

This package is currently KDE4 based, and depends on the KDE library:

libkcddb4 (>= 4:4.3.4)

and

libkcompactdisc4 (>= 4:4.8.80)

libkcddb4 is replaced by libkf5cddb5 in KDE applications 16.12 now in zesty proposed, and cannot migrate while sources such as this that depend on the old version remain.

libkf5cddb5 will be required by upcoming release of KF5 port of K3B which is the default and seeded cd/dvd burner app in kubuntu.

libkf5compactdisc5 likewise replaces libkcompactdisc4, and libkcompactdisc4 is also broken by any new libkf5cddb5.

This also blocks The KF5 audiocd-kio now in -proposed, which is required for Dolphin (KDE/kubuntu) file manager to support CD extraction and format conversions without the need for stand-alone tools such as Audex.

See: http://jriddell.org/2017/02/11/plasma-sprint-legacy-media-support-in-kde-applications/

I tested the Dolphin support for Jonathan after that sprint to confirm.

debian have not yet dealt with this issue as in unstable they are still on the older KDE applications 16.08.

Audex is not a upstream supported KDE application, and the KDE libraries it depends on will now be unsupported.

some efforts to make an upstream KF port, but it there has been no activity/commits for 5 months or more.

Reverse depends: none
Source and binaries
Release: zesty

See original description
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in audex (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Revision history for this message
Rik Mills (rikmills) wrote :

The KF3 KF5 port that is blocked by the libkcddb4 and libkcompactdisc4 requirement of Audex, itself includes the CD ripping functionality of Audex.

CD ripping is also well catered for in other applications available in the ubuntu archive.

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Rik Mills (rikmills) wrote :

Upstream maintainer (also of K3B) said that:

"K3b will be released as KDE Applications 17.04.0! and it is able to rip CD ;-)"

which is true, and where development is moving now.

So seems Audex is falling by the wayside.

Rik Mills (rikmills)
description: updated
summary: - Audex needs to be ported to Qt5/KF5 or removed from zesty archive
+ Port to Qt5/KF5 or remove from zesty archive (please now remove)
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Rik Mills (rikmills) wrote : Re: Port to Qt5/KF5 or remove from zesty archive (please now remove)

Please now remove. No upstream movement.

summary: - Port to Qt5/KF5 or remove from zesty archive (please now remove)
+ Audex - port to Qt5/KF5 or remove from zesty archive (please now remove)
Andy Whitcroft (apw)
Changed in audex (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Andy Whitcroft (apw)
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: Confirmed → In Progress
Revision history for this message
Andy Whitcroft (apw) wrote :

Removing packages from zesty:
        audex 0.79-1 in zesty
                audex 0.79-1 in zesty amd64
                audex 0.79-1 in zesty arm64
                audex 0.79-1 in zesty armhf
                audex 0.79-1 in zesty i386
                audex 0.79-1 in zesty powerpc
                audex 0.79-1 in zesty ppc64el
                audex 0.79-1 in zesty s390x

Changed in audex (Ubuntu):
status: In Progress → Fix Released
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