Bug 893644 – media-sound/easytag-2.4.3-r5: switch from media-libs/id3lib to media-libs/taglib

• Status: CONFIRMED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description jon R-B 2023-02-08 19:57:08 UTC]

easytag depends on id3lib for mp3 tag editing. 
Due to https://bugs.gentoo.org/893642 id3lib is unable to build.

When reviewing the homepage for id3lib https://sourceforge.net/projects/id3lib/

id3lib is/was a software library for reading, writing, and manipulating ID3v2 tags. Additionally it is possible to get some basic mp3 header information like bitrate etc.
However, we now recommend moving to taglib. https://taglib.org/


the ebuild was edited to use taglib instead and easytag builds, runs and edits mp3's fine 


diff -u easytag-2.4.3-r5.ebuild easytag-2.4.3-r6.ebuild
--- easytag-2.4.3-r5.ebuild	2022-12-21 17:11:40.929533178 +0000
+++ easytag-2.4.3-r6.ebuild	2023-02-08 19:40:57.899078402 +0000
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
 	>=x11-libs/gtk+-3.10:3
 	flac? ( >=media-libs/flac-1.3:= )
 	mp3? (
-		>=media-libs/id3lib-3.8.3-r8
+		>=media-libs/taglib-1.13
 		>=media-libs/libid3tag-0.15.1b-r4:=
 	)
 	mp4? ( >=media-libs/taglib-1.9.1[mp4(+)] )



Recommend changing the dependency.


This replacement could also be viable for:

media-sound/kid3
media-sound/id3v2
media-sound/split2flac
media-sound/ripperx
media-sound/tagtool
media-sound/splay
media-sound/grip
kde-apps/kwave
media-sound/audiotag
media-sound/split2flac

[Comment 1 Sam James 2023-02-08 20:00:11 UTC]

We'll have to make some change to the build system to make it actuallly choose which to use, otherwise it's automagic.

[Comment 2 Sam James 2023-02-08 20:01:25 UTC]

It may still need id3tag for mp3? https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/easytag/-/blob/master/configure.ac#L252

[Comment 3 Sam James 2023-02-08 20:01:32 UTC]

id3lib*

[Comment 4 jon R-B 2023-02-08 20:11:04 UTC]

yup I just dug into it a bit more... its not as simple :(