Summary: | media-tv/mythtv and plugins: removal of last stable package from tree breaks world update | ||
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Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Malte Starostik <bugs> |
Component: | Current packages | Assignee: | Doug Goldstein (RETIRED) <cardoe> |
Status: | RESOLVED INVALID | ||
Severity: | normal | CC: | mythtv+disabled |
Priority: | Normal | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
Whiteboard: | |||
Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- |
Description
Malte Starostik
2012-05-11 00:55:14 UTC
Keywords (the KEYWORDS variable) should reflect the state of the ebuild, what it installs and how the software runs. You should probably go ahead and unmask 0.24.* if you were fine with running 0.23.* as well. Follow bug #411547 if you're interested in getting 0.25.* into the tree. (In reply to comment #1) Point is that there was a stable as in KEYWORDed amd64 0.23 version in the tree, which has been pruned off before there is a newer version with that keyword available. And that makes the installed old but keyworded version break dependency calculation. So sure thing I'll have a look at 0.24 or rather directly at 0.25. But the subject of this bug is the messup caused for anyone with 0.23 installed by the (from $user's perspective) premature removal of those ebuilds. Thanks for you work, *really*. But why is asking to not break/unbreak the tree invalid? I think part of the issue is that there aren't many of us caring for mythtv in Gentoo in general, and we all sort-of have different goals. Personally I'd have left 0.23 stable, then stabilized 0.24.1 and a few of the plugins. I suspect others want something a bit more bleeding edge, and so on. Unless proxy maintainers step up I doubt I'll ever support more than a few plugins. I've been having a bit of trouble getting my frontend switched over to Gentoo (issues with vdapu - possibly X11-related) which has kept me from moving to 0.25 because I REALLY don't want to have to upgrade my non-Gentoo front-end again. For now I think mythtv in portage basically is what it is. It seems like we're all getting along reasonably well as-is - if others want to become more active and push things along further I'll probably just get out of their way and maintain yet another overlay that lags well-behind the others. For me mythtv is more about something for the family to watch on TV and less about cutting edge technology, so stability matters far more than being current. Plus, since I'm using more than one distro version coordination is a real pain right now. If I can get Gentoo running on my Zotac ION without artifacts I might be able to do more to keep up... There is no such thing as a stable package when it doesn't compile. As Rich said, we don't really have the development man power / interest in MythTV in Gentoo. We need people to step up as devs and get it in a good state. |