[mythtv] Where's a good place to report PPA packaging bugs?
f-myth-users at media.mit.edu
f-myth-users at media.mit.edu
Thu Jul 29 17:14:00 UTC 2021
> Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2021 11:31:18 +0100
> From: Paul Harrison <mythtv at mythqml.net>
> I did a clean install of stock Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS a couple of weeks ago
> and didn't have any problems. Our figures show approximately 81% of all
> MythTV users that submit there stats to us use Ubuntu and about 41% of
> those use 20.04 so if it was a wide spread problem we would know about
> it by now. We did recently have someone on the forum reporting problems
> not related to this that was eventually tracked down to them only
> partially updating there system so they ended up with mismatched
> packages installed and not surprisingly they had problems.
Fascinating. Well, this is a 20.04 system which I installed last year,
but it's never had any mismatched packages (I believe Myth is the first
PPA I've enabled, for example). I've just installed a few packages
(emacs etc) and have let the updater update old packages every so often.
I've never aborted it in the middle of a package operation, and it
reports no broken packages. (And 20.04 was freshly-installed; I've
never felt it worth the risk of upgrading through versions because
I've often heard of people running into subtle bugs when they do that.)
I suppose if this is rare, then it's not going to inconvenience
everyone who installs Myth, which was what I thought was going on
and why I reported it.
(My offer to share logfiles etc still stands, if you or anyone
else think they'd help in debugging this. I don't throw logs away.)
Obviously my short-term problem is resolved, because installing pwgen
fixed it. But I don't understand why the Pre-Depends did nothing.
[...a thought. It's not possible that if I had a few packages awaiting
updates (e.g,. security updates that haven't run yet) that that could
block a Pre-Depends, right? You'd think those are totally independent.
I'm grasping at straws here, and that would seem to indicate some sort
of apt bug. But I don't -think- I did an update immediately before
installing myth, so there may have been some outstanding.]
> As for who is the PPA maintainer? Since MythBuntu closed down there
> isn't one. We all muck in when we can to maintain best we can the
> packaging repo that has the debian packaging instructions that's used by
> the Ubuntu Launchpad builders. I think I'm the only active MythTV dev
> who has access to the Mythbuntu PPA's so can do some maintenance on
> there if needed.
OK. And thanks!
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