[rsadowski at cvs.openbsd.org: CVS: cvs.openbsd.org: ports]

[Jason E. Hale]

On Wed, Dec 13, 2023 at 10:27 PM Rafael Sadowski <rafael at sizeofvoid.org> wrote:
>
> Hi FreeBSD KDE hackers,
>
> I see you are still depending on QtAV in your digikam port. It's time to
> remove it.
>
> Cheers, Rafael
>
> ----- Forwarded message from Rafael Sadowski <rsadowski at cvs.openbsd.org> -----
>
> From: Rafael Sadowski <rsadowski at cvs.openbsd.org>
> Date: Mon, 15 May 2023 23:20:08 -0600 (MDT)
> Subject: CVS: cvs.openbsd.org: ports
> To: ports-changes at cvs.openbsd.org
>
> CVSROOT:        /cvs
> Module name:    ports
> Changes by:     rsadowski at cvs.openbsd.org       2023/05/15 23:20:08
>
> Modified files:
>         graphics/digikam: Makefile
>
> Log message:
> Remove QtAV as dependency
>
> Upstream has confirmed that it is no longer used.
>
> Thanks Brad
>
>
> ----- End forwarded message -----https

QtAV is long gone from the FreeBSD ports tree. We removed
multimedia/QtAV on 2023-08-22 [1] as it was abandoned by the author
and incompatible with FFmpeg >= 6.x. Our graphics/digikam port has
also not directly depended on it since I updated it to 8.1.0 in [2].
DigiKam now bundles its own copy of QtAV which includes such
improvements as supporting newer versions of FFmpeg at least to 6.0,
at least to the point of building. From my understanding, future
kf6/Qt6-based releases of DigiKam are striving to drop QtAV altogether
and depend solely on qt-multimedia.

[1] https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/commit/?id=635ccfbf59522ddd44cd9283b321e2d9b3bc9876
[2] https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/commit/?id=dbbf964f8cad61eb67b21f2f1e5b09f7ed63d3d6

- Jason