[Pkg-mpd-maintainers] Latest version of MPD

[Florian Schlichting]

Hi Nick,

I'm sorry you haven't received an answer yet - I overlooked your email
and apparently no-one else felt the need to reply either.

> I've been using MPD on a Raspberry Pi for a couple of years and it's been fantastic.
> 
> However, more recently I'm finding the the MPD daemon is falling over more and more often. It starts playing music and then I loose connection from my client.
> 
> I was hoping that the latest version, 18.x would resolve these problems but although its available on the GIT hub it will not install using apt-get install mpd.

As far as I'm aware, the Raspberry Pi uses a Debian derivative called
Raspbian, among other things because the Debian ARM port is not properly
optimized for the Pi's hardware. That is, they take over and modify the
Debian versions of software like MPD, but we (as Debian) have no control
over when and how they do that.

My impression is they're working with the current Debian stable release
called "wheezy", which contains mpd version 0.16.7-2 - old indeed, but
being a stable release this will not change. Your best option probably
is to take the current mpd source package from unstable (0.18.10-2) and
compile a package on your Raspbian system.
http://raspbian.org/RaspbianDocumentation may have hints on what needs
to be done to accomplish that; and you may have to drop some systemd
stuff that depends on functionality not yet available in wheezy.

HTH,
Florian