Release 2.6.0 - Information for downstream package maintainers

[dreua]

2.6.0 seems to bring some minor changes in dependencies which package maintainers should be aware of in order to fix their manifests:

• New build requirement: pkgconfig(vulkan) (i.e. vulkan development libraries)
• New build requirement: nasm (I think this is a compiler)

Anything else that I missed?

At least in the Fedora package I removed two patches that could no longer be applied, but that is probably very distro specific.

I don't feel like reading the very long list of changelogs today and wanted to share my findings here in the hope that it may be useful to some other maintainer. Let me know if you think there is a better place to put this. I wouldn't mind if this issue is closed without further action, it will still be findable through the issue search function.

For reference here is the changes in homebrew packaging https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/177843/files

[GhostlyDark]

The graphics plugin mupen64plus-video-glide64mk2 does not use nor require boost anymore.

[dreua]

Thanks, recognizing superfluous/outdated requirements is obviously much harder than those missing ones which make your build fail 😉

Tagging @chenrui333 in he wants to drop that for homebrew too.

[dreua]

Makefile:186: No libspeexdsp development libraries found. Mupen64plus-sdl-audio will be built without speex-* resampler.

That is fixed by "BuildRequires: speexdsp-devel" on Fedora. Not pushed yet. (It will automatically recognize the runtime requirements.)

Edit: maybe better yet: BuildRequires: pkgconfig(speexdsp)