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Bug#991023: Mixxx 2.3.0 released, switched to CMake, dependency changes



Source: mixxx
Version: 2.2.4~dfsg-1
Severity: wishlist
Control: submitter -1 Be <be@mixxx.org>

On 2021-07-12 22:07:03 -0500, Be wrote:
> Hi Debian packagers,
> 
> Mixxx 2.3.0 was released two weeks ago:
> 
> https://mixxx.org/news/2021-06-28-mixxx-2-3-0-released/
> 
> We have removed the old SCons build system and replaced it with CMake. We
> run CI with Ubuntu runners upstream so hopefully you shouldn't encounter
> difficulties updating it. Please ensure the udev rule file in
> res/linux/mixxx-usb-uaccess.rules gets installed according to whatever
> policy you have for udev rules. This is required for unprivileged users to
> use HID DJ controllers as well as a few odd devices that Mixxx accesses Bulk
> endpoints through libusb.
> 
> Note that the dependencies on libmp4v2 and faad have been dropped in favor
> of FFmpeg for AAC playback. We added support for AAC recording through an
> optional dependency on fdk-aac which is dynamically loaded at runtime. I
> know fdk-aac is in the nonfree Debian repository and it would be a shame to
> add a required nonfree dependency, but if the user has the fdk-aac nonfree
> package installed Mixxx should be able to use it. Fedora and Arch package
> Wim Tayman's fork of fdk-aac (
> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wtaymans/fdk-aac-stripped ) in their main
> repositories which removes HE-AAC support to work around the patent issues.
> We have also added support for AAC broadcasting by switching from libshout
> to the libshout-idjc fork which Debian already packages (this requires
> fdk-aac as well).
> 
> Please don't hesitate to reply here or ask on our Zulip chat (
> https://mixxx.zulipchat.com/ ) with questions.
> 

Let's turn that into a bug report.

Cheers
-- 
Sebastian Ramacher

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