Re: Move audacious to qt5

On Fri 19/03/2021 14:12, Bjorn Ketelaars wrote:
> Recently a qt5-flavor has been added to audacious, which ran in a
> dpb-related issue:
>
> audacious/plugins, depends on audacious/player,
> audacious/plugins,qt5 depends on audacious/player,qt5
>
> audacious/player, and audacious/player,qt5 conflict, which means that
> whichever flavor is built first prevents the other flavor from building,
> unless this happens on different machines or dpb "junks" no longer
> needed installed packages in between.
>
> A similar situation used to exist with kde3/kde4 for which a fix has
> been introduced (DPB_PROPERTIES=tag:{kde3,kde4}). Unfortunately only one
> set of tags can exist meaning that using this mechanism for audacious is
> kind of a hack.
>
> I would like to fix this issue as it is likely that a release is coming
> up soon. There are two solutions:
> 1. Temporarily disable the qt5 flavor and work on a solution after
> release
> 2. Move away from gtk in favor of qt5
>
> It seems that upstream of audacious is slowly moving towards qt5, which
> means that option 2 makes the most sense. As such, i would like to
> propose to move audacious to Qt5. FWIW the winamp classic interface
> still works.
>
> Diff below has been run tested and 'pkg_add -u' seems to update a
> previously installed qt5-flavor without any issue.
>
> Opinions/comments/OKs?

Ping...

I will commit this weekend, unless someone objects.