[mythtv] Additional run-time dependencies

[Stuart Auchterlonie]

On 18/08/17 16:12, Thomas Mashos wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 6:15 AM Gary Buhrmaster
> <gary.buhrmaster at gmail.com <mailto:gary.buhrmaster at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 7:01 AM, Karl Dietz
>     <dekarl at spaetfruehstuecken.org
>     <mailto: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.
> 
> Thomas

It's already being reworked as we speak to work with the version
of the packages shipped in ubuntu 16.04.

A test patch has already been pushed.

See https://github.com/MythTV/mythtv/pull/141
and https://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/13084


Regards
Stuart