[mythtv-users] Broken mythfrontend package?

[John Pilkington]

On 04/09/14 18:04, Mike Perkins wrote:
> On 04/09/14 17:44, Janusz S. Bien wrote:
>> Quote/Cytat - Mike Perkins <mikep at randomtraveller.org.uk> (Thu 04 Sep
>> 2014
>> 06:31:05 PM CEST):
>>
>>> Having successfully upgraded my backend from 0.26
>>> (deb-multimedia/wheezy) to
>>> 0.27.3 (deb-multimedia/wheezy-backports) I'm now trying to upgrade
>>> the frontend
>>> box by doing a clean install.
>>>
>>> However, the 'mythtv-frontend' package flags up as 'broken'. Typical.
>>>
>>> Does anyone else see this, or is there more information?
>>
>> I had no problems with installing mythtv-frontend 0.27.3-dmo1+wheezy+bp1.
>>
>> Best regards
>>
>> Janusz
>>
> ...well, I did.
>
> The command line provides more information, suggesting that transcode is
> broken. When I try to install /that/, it suggests libavformat54 is broken.
>
> So I do 'apt-get install libavformat54' and it works ok.
>
> Next step, try 'apt-get install mythtv-frontend' and it now works. Looks
> like some of the dependencies in the package are slightly askew.
>
> Fire up frontend... and it works.
>
> I'll leave this note here for future enquirers.
>
Richard Shaw, rpmfusion packager, asked if transcode is still needed a 
few weeks ago.  IIRC it used to be a mytharchive requirement for 
shrink-to-fit,  tcrequant, but that's no longer true.  I don't know if 
Richard got any other info; and I haven't tried a build without it.