[mythtv] Updates to mythtv/external and required system libraries

Silicondust/HDHomeRun mythtv at silicondust.com
Mon Aug 6 13:50:42 UTC 2018


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>If I understand correctly and you are saying that upstream are changing
>interfaces (structs, function arguments etc) without bumping the SONAME
>in an appropriate way then indeed that is a mistake.
>
>If upstream are unwilling/unable to manage the SONAME properly then, at
>least in the Debian/Ubuntu ecosystem, it falls to the package
>maintainer to do so and bugs should be reported if they miss something.
>I'd bet (but don't know) that the same is true in the Fedora ecosystem.
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>>Of course, if you compile and run on the exact same system
>>every time any libraries are updated, there should be no
>>problem, but since there are few ways to provide those
>>guarantees, some issues may result.
>
>As far as Bill's problem goes if he is both building and running on
>Ubuntu 14.04 that ought to be sufficient -- that's a self contained set
>of dev and runtime packages.
>
Nick here from Silicondust/HDHomeRun...

If someone with experience in maintaining libs can point me in the right 
direction, I am happy to make changes to help with 
versioning/compatibility.

I can also be found on freenode #hdhomerun "jafa"

Nick
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