[mythtv] Additional run-time dependencies

[Nick Morrott]

On 18 August 2017 at 16:12, Thomas Mashos <thomas at mashos.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 6:15 AM Gary Buhrmaster <gary.buhrmaster at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 7:01 AM, Karl Dietz
>> <dekarl at spaetfruehstuecken.org> wrote:
>> > PS: Schedules Direct just being a random sample of a database with art
>> > that our users might enjoy.
>>
>> Yes, I have a starter (and still not completed) metadata
>> artwork grabber for SD that I started quite some time
>> ago that I really should get back to one of these days
>> (I presume if I cared more about artwork it would get
>> more towards the top of my list).  The artwork seems
>> reasonably good (and since it is presumably curated
>> by paid staff it likely should be; no "surprises" in the
>> returned results).
>> _______________________________________________
>>
>
> We can't add pip installs to a package install so we have 3 options
> 1) The user installs the packages manually, no dependencies are added to
> packaging
> 2) The tool gets rewritten to remove the need for the updated libraries,
> adding dependencies where they are needed.
> 3) We add the packages to the PPA and add the dependencies to the mythtv
> packages.
>
> I've looked and the new minimum versions aren't even in Artful, so someone
> will need to put together an updated package. This could be as simple as
> taking the current packaging and pointing it at the new versions of the
> packaging and building it, but I haven't looked into it.
>
> I'm open to any of these solutions and if #3 is chosen will add the package
> to the PPA.

As Stuart mentioned earlier, #2 is the only sane answer to this issue,
for the project, for packager and most importantly for end users.

I'm curious to know what is so special about the updated ttvdb API
that seemingly no currently packaged Python libraries on any major
distro are sufficiently current to allow it to work.

Cheers,
Nick