[mythtv-users] Caveats in upgrading from Ubuntu 18.04 + MythTV 29.1 to something newer?

[Will Dormann]

Hi folks,

I'm a strong believer in "If it ain't broke, don't fix it!"
But at the same time I also don't want to be running 
unsupported/vulnerable platforms.  And it's touch hard to reconcile 
these two different mindsets.

Given the upcoming EOL of Ubuntu 18.04, I figure that it's time to 
update things.  But before I dig into this project, I'm curious about 
any snags that one might expect in either the updating of a MythTV box's 
underlying Ubuntu version, or the updating of MythTV itself.

Having skimmed through this list from time to time, I seem to recall 
seeing messages along the line of "lirc doesn't work anymore unless you 
do <blah>", or something similar.

Is there a resource out there that covers the various things that may 
break as the result of doing such an update (both MythTV and Ubuntu, if 
I had my wishes), and what can be done to prevent/correct them? 
Obviously I'll have a full system backup before going down this path, 
but I'd like to avoid surprises and the related time sinks.


Thanks
-WD