Hello, Amarok disappeared from some major Linux distributions like Debian & Ubuntu. The primary cause is its dependance on Qt4/KDE4 while the distros have moved to Qt5/KDE5 (as a side note I don't understand why the older toolkits are not kept around in parallel to the newer ones even if there is no bug support anymore: most simple apps written for Qt3 or Qt4 will work just fine).
DigiKam, another Qt-based project, provides self-contained AppImages (<https://appimage.org/>) bundles, so that the program can be run without installing anything but the executable file (but in its case it is rather to be able to install cutting edge versions of the toolkits that the bundle is useful for). I think providing an AppImage bundle would make Amarok used (at least easily installable for non Qt developpers) again, which could bring back some contributing developpers. I don't know if there are technical issues to solve to be able to provide something like an AppImage. I know that the latest unstable version is based on Qt5, but the problem of having a system with an incompatible Qt version will remain (for example if version 3.0 is released soon, some people might want to upgrade to Amarok 3.0 while their system which they may not administrate provides only Qt4), so why not provide a prebuilt AppImage (or anything similar)? NB. I am not subscribed to the list.
