[mythtv] Removing libmythbluray and libudfread

[Scott Theisen]

On 6/15/24 19:48, Gary Buhrmaster wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 15, 2024 at 6:32 PM Scott Theisen<scott.the.elm at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> Is there any reason to keep libmythbluray?  Our internal version is 1.2.1 and mythtv will use the system version if >=0.9.3.  As far as I can tell, all of our targets have a packaged version (https://pkgs.org/search/?q=libbluray  ) of the current 1.3.4 release.  EL8 was previously mentioned as not having an official package, but EL9 does.
>>
> The issue is the -devel packages are "problematic" for EL8
> (i.e. not available in a way that works well).
>
> Technically EL8 is probably no longer officially supported
> by the project, but neither are a number of other distros
> still in the buildbot network (such as Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
> and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and EL8 and debian bullseye and
> freebsd 13).  Having those distros in the buildbot network
> is sometimes useful (as some of the users choose to
> rarely upgrade their base, and a new commit causes the
> compile to fail the developers can make some choices
> as to how to proceed), but the project can obviously
> also choose to prune the buildbot network (which would
> be the necessary first step).

So I guess the question is do we realistically expect anyone using EL8 
to update to MythTV master (or v35 when it is released) without also 
updating to EL9, which has been out for almost two years now. It may be 
relevant that RHEL8 has exited its five year "Full Support" period and 
is now in its five year "Maintenance Support" period.

Regarding "officially supported" by MythTV, 
https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Coding_Standards says:

  * *Platform support:* Myth targets distro support for maintained
    releases at the following revisions:
      o Debian "stable"
      o Fedora "current" and "current-1"
      o Ubuntu "current" and "LTS"

Is that accurate?  Because it sounds like we are actually targeting more 
platforms.

Regards,

Scott
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