[mythtv-users] 0.20 Debian packages

[Brad Fritz]

Mario and Alexander,

On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 01:04:26PM -0500, Mario Limonciello wrote:

> I have had a debian directory for packages that I've updated throughout svn
> that were originally based on .18.1, and then .19.  I just finished
> migrating the main package to 0.20, but I'm working on plugins still.  This
> is the problem with not having an official repo for debian packages, lots of
> people make their own packages, & they are all 'slightly' different, and
> built with different options.  Once I finish mine up completely, I can host
> them as well at my school webspace.  I'm not sure if they will be better or
> worse then the packages hosted here.  The most ideal situation is if we can
> get ahold of Matt Zimmerman, the debian maintainer for myth.  See how he
> wants things done, and give him each of our debian directories.  Probably,
> whoever's builds cleanly in an edgy-pbuilder wins I'd think.  I haven't even
> tried mine in pbuilder yet.

I suspect most people who use Debian binary packages get them from 
http://debian-multimedia.org/ maintained by Christian Marillat.

I have sent a few very minor mythtv debian patches to Christian in the
past and he's always been quick to reply and good about incorporating
improvements.  You might consider downloading 0.19 source packages
from the debian-multimedia archive and sending patches to Christian.
(You could probably use the reportbug package to submit them.)  That
would probably be better for the Debian/MythTV user community than
adding new deb archives.

Also FYI...

mdz is no longer maintaining the Debian mythtv packages:

  http://dijkstra.csh.rit.edu/~mdz/debian/dists/unstable/mythtv/README
  http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/dev/164579?search_string=mdz;#164579

There was also a pkg-mythtv project:

  http://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-mythtv/

but I don't think that group ever released any packages.

--Brad