Bug 587972

Summary:	media-libs/libechonest should be removed
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	jms <jms.gentoo>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo TreeCleaner Project <treecleaner>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	fatzer2, jstein, nikoli, proxy-maint, sound, ssuominen, treecleaner
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	https://qa-reports.gentoo.org/output/genrdeps/rindex/media-libs/libechonest
See Also:	https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=503654
Whiteboard:	removed on 2017/04/06
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:	573712, 591796
Bug Blocks:

Description jms 2016-07-04 12:46:15 UTC

from what I understood echonest api is gone

http://developer.echonest.com/

At least one package depend on it
media-sound/clementine

I think this package should be removed at some point

Comment 1 Jonas Stein gentoo-dev

2016-07-05 19:28:02 UTC

see also: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=587976

Comment 2 Adam Feldman gentoo-dev

2016-07-05 19:51:24 UTC

If I recall correctly, Nikoli has renounced his maintainership (and the metadata wasn't updated).  If someone else from proxy-maint can confirm, I'd recommend passing this bug off to ssuominen and Project:Sound to make the decision on how to proceed.  Just a side note for the maintainers of clementine (also nikoli, proxy-maint, and sound [should just be sound at this point per previous]), there is an upstream request to make this package an optional dep for clementine https://github.com/clementine-player/Clementine/issues/5384 which you might want to push for/forward.

Comment 3 rick vernam 2017-03-23 01:57:07 UTC

Looks like Tomahawk uses this.

rick rick # emerge --depclean libechonest -pv

Calculating dependencies... done!
  media-libs/libechonest-2.3.1-r1 pulled in by:
    media-sound/tomahawk-9999 requires >=media-libs/libechonest-2.3.1:0/2.3=[qt5]

Comment 4 Johannes Huber (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2017-03-23 05:50:41 UTC

(In reply to rick vernam from comment #3)
> Looks like Tomahawk uses this.
> 
> rick rick # emerge --depclean libechonest -pv
> 
> Calculating dependencies... done!
>   media-libs/libechonest-2.3.1-r1 pulled in by:
>     media-sound/tomahawk-9999 requires
> >=media-libs/libechonest-2.3.1:0/2.3=[qt5]

You will need to rebuild tomahawk-9999. It was dropped a month ago:

commit 1de2a4f7d218dede710d276c6d51f04f7c7985b5
Author: Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@gentoo.org>
Date:   Tue Feb 21 01:40:38 2017 +0100

    media-sound/tomahawk: Drop media-libs/libechonest
    
    Upstream commit ed9a02764431d9e2bb29c479db23396a647ed842
    
    Gentoo-bug: 591796
    
    Package-Manager: portage-2.3.3