Please upgrade libsdl-mixer-2 to get MP3 support fixed

[Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo]

2015-09-14 8:32 GMT+01:00 Tobias Leich <email at froggs.de>:
> Am 14.09.2015 um 02:36 schrieb Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo:
>> 2015-09-13 19:50 GMT+01:00 Dominique Dumont <dod at debian.org>:
>>> Hello
>>>
>>> Sorry for the late reply.
>> Me too.  I was travelling at the time and this got lost in the backlog...
>>
>>> Le dimanche 2 août 2015, 08:59:03 08:59:03 Tobias Leich a écrit :
>>>> Hi, in libsdl2-mixer-2.0-0 exists a bug that disallows mp3 support when
>>>> libmad is used as the mp3 backend.
>>>> Since that is the default on debian, it affects all debian-esque systems.
>>>>
>>>> This is the fix: https://hg.libsdl.org/SDL_mixer/rev/1aca2b6d570f
>>> This fix patches load_mp3.h  which is missing from Debian package repository.
>>>
>>> I don't know if this is expected or not. I'll let Manuel deal with this one.
>> Could you perhaps try to ask upstream and convince them to release a
>> new version officially?  The last release was more than 2 years ago,
>> and things like this would merit new bugfix releases.
>>
>> It's very cumbersome to take random versions from their repositories,
>> it's not the first time that we add patches that then have to be
>> disabled, because they are missing changes in other parts, or we keep
>> shipping after they were removed from the upstream because they were
>> buggy...
>>
>>
>> Cheers.
> I created a ticket in their bugtracker:
> https://bugzilla.libsdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3120

Thanks a lot, Tobias!

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Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montezelo at gmail.com>