[mythtv] Additional run-time dependencies

[Stuart Auchterlonie]

On 18/08/17 01:23, Thomas Mashos wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 2:39 PM Peter Bennett <pgbennett at comcast.net
> <mailto:pgbennett at comcast.net>> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>     On 08/17/2017 04:00 PM, Thomas Mashos wrote:
>>
>>     I'm not sure we can do pip installs in packaging, I'd much rather
>>     see if we can use the versions already in 16.04. 
>>     -- 
>>     -Thomas
>>
>     I agree with you, this seems sub-optimal. I did try running the new
>     program with the versions from 16.04 and failed miserably. There is
>     background in the ticket ->  https://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/13084
> 
>     I suppose an alternative is to add the required versions to the
>     mythbuntu ppas, that would mean finding and packaging them up
>     appropriately. It sounds messy.
> 
>     Mark Spieth is the person who did the development, you can discuss
>     the possibilities with him.
> 
> 
>     Peter
>     _______________________________________________
> 
> 
> Unfortunately the new version isn't in Artful either. I'm checking if
> we're even allowed to do pip installs from packaging.
> -- 
> -Thomas
> 

We really need to rework the code to use the version in 16.10, as the
latest available LTS version of ubuntu is what we should *always* work
with.


Regards
Stuart