<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Sat, Aug 19, 2017 at 1:16 PM <<a href="mailto:f-myth-users@media.mit.edu">f-myth-users@media.mit.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> > Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2017 20:02:35 +0000<br>
> From: Thomas Mashos <<a href="mailto:thomas@mashos.com" target="_blank">thomas@mashos.com</a>><br>
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> I've just added these to the dependencies for mythtv-common. In doing so,<br>
> trusty builds needed to be stopped as the packages don't exist at all on<br>
> trusty.<br>
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Is it intentional that Myth is only buildable on the -latest- LTS,<br>
and not all LTS's which are still supported? I don't know of Myth<br>
has an explicit policy one way or the other, but the whole point of<br>
an LTS is not to have to reinstall with great frequency.<br>
<br>
Would it instead be possible to build (and get errors) but declare ttvdb<br>
grabbing not possible on that OS unless extra repos are enabled? Such<br>
grabbing seems an almost trivial reason to suddenly drop support for an<br>
LTS that's still got almost two years to go.<br>
<br>
P.S. I also noticed the bug report saying lack of package availability<br>
also breaks raspbian jessie. Taken together, this seems to be affecting<br>
a lot of releases for a very small amount of functionality. How much of<br>
what's in those packages could perhaps be moved directly into the new code<br>
for releases which lack the packages?<br>
_______________________________________________<br><br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>The Mythbuntu team has always supported Latest LTS only and recommended upgrading every 2 years (although attempts are made to build packages for older LTS releases, if stuff causes them to break there no attempt to fix them).</div><div><br></div><div>If I remove the blacklisting of Trusty, then the package will build but will fail to install due to missing dependencies. I might be able to backport those packages to the PPA if it's not too much effort.</div></div></div><div dir="ltr">-- <br></div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">-Thomas</div></div>