+## begin beets
+# soo, apt install beets fails due to wanting a pip package,
+# we find out why it wants this through
+# apt-cache depends --recurse --no-recommends --no-suggests --no-conflicts --no-breaks --no-replaces --no-enhances beets | less
+# python-mediafile requires tox, which requires virtualenv, which requires pip.
+# but, python-mediafile doesn't really require tox, it is specified in
+# ./usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/mediafile-0.9.0.dist-info/METADATA
+# as being required only for testing, but the debian package
+# included it anyways, due to a mistake or bad tooling or something.
+# I don't plan to use tox, so, according to https://serverfault.com/a/251091,
+# we can create and install a dummy package by:
+#
+# "equivs-control <name>, edit the file produced to provide the right
+# dependency and have a nice name, then run equivs-build <name> and
+# finally dpkg -i the resulting .deb file"
+# as of 2023-02, the tox dependency was removed in debian unstable, so
+# this hack will probably go away in t12.
+
+if pcheck beets; then
+ tmpdir="$(mktemp -d)"
+ cd "$tmpdir"
+ # edited from output of equivs-control tox
+ cat >tox <<'EOF'
+Section: python
+Priority: optional
+Standards-Version: 3.9.2
+Package: tox
+Description: tox-dummy
+EOF
+ equivs-build tox
+ sudo dpkg -i tox_1.0_all.deb
+ rm -rf ./tox*
+ pi beets python3-discogs-client
+ cd
+ rm -r "$tmpdir"
+fi
+
+# get rid of annoying message
+s sed -ri "s/^([[:space:]]*ui.print_\('Playing)/#\1/" /usr/share/beets/beetsplug/play.py
+
+