[mythtv-users] Trademark Issue with "Packages - MythTV Official Wiki" and the repository is questionable for Debian users

[mythtv at phipps-hutton.freeserve.co.uk]

Quoting Chuck Peters <cp at ccil.org>:

> I am looking into running a MythTV frontend on Debian's stable release
> wheezy with the backend running Mythbuntu's .27 fixes branch from the
> Launchpad PPA.  I'm still looking into how I might do that and
> unfortunately I have more questions like Why isn't MythTV in the
> official Debian archives yet and what do we need to do you get them
> there...  I would think it wouldn't be too much work to use the
> Mythbuntu packages in Debian, but then we would have other trademark
> issues that require a license from Canonical...  Hopefully we can see
> some official Debian MythTV packages by christmas, does anyone want to
> help?


> Let me be clear I am not accusing anyone of doing something
> intentionally wrong.  I just want MythTV and Debian users to be able to
> run reliable packages easily and not worry about these sometimes messy
> trademark issues.

IANAL and I don't want to get involved in the politics of  
distributions etc. It seems unlikely that MythTV will become an  
offical Debian package for a few years and debian-multimedia.org can  
cause problems if you use anything other repositories as well (I had  
problems with it and debian-backports).

The MythTV GIT repository has support for building debian packages  
(for Ubuntu or Mythbuntu I think) and these work nicely. You will have  
to install all the build dependencies and will need patience the first  
time you build. Here's my build script:

cd /home/tim/LocalPackages/git/MythTV-0.27/packaging/deb
ionice -c 3 nice -19 ./build-debs.sh fixes/0.27  
/home/tim/LocalPackages/git/MythTV-0.27  
/home/tim/LocalPackages/git/MythTV-0.27/PATCHES/* 2>&1 \
| tee ../../build-debs.log

The advantages are that you can choose when to rebuild and you can  
apply your own private patches easily without having to learn git-fu.

Hope this helps.

Cheers,
Tim.