[mythtv] Additional run-time dependencies

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Sat Aug 19 20:16:13 UTC 2017


    > Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2017 20:02:35 +0000
    > From: Thomas Mashos <thomas at mashos.com>

    > I've just added these to the dependencies for mythtv-common. In doing so,
    > trusty builds needed to be stopped as the packages don't exist at all on
    > trusty.

Is it intentional that Myth is only buildable on the -latest- LTS,
and not all LTS's which are still supported?  I don't know of Myth
has an explicit policy one way or the other, but the whole point of
an LTS is not to have to reinstall with great frequency.

Would it instead be possible to build (and get errors) but declare ttvdb
grabbing not possible on that OS unless extra repos are enabled?  Such
grabbing seems an almost trivial reason to suddenly drop support for an
LTS that's still got almost two years to go.

P.S.  I also noticed the bug report saying lack of package availability
also breaks raspbian jessie.  Taken together, this seems to be affecting
a lot of releases for a very small amount of functionality.  How much of
what's in those packages could perhaps be moved directly into the new code
for releases which lack the packages?


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