[mythtv-users] Problem with PPA?

[John Pilkington]

On 22/10/16 22:54, John Pilkington wrote:
> On 22/10/16 22:25, David Williams wrote:
>> I had a similar problem to sgreene59 of unmet dependencies when after
>> upgrading I attempted to install mythtv-frontend. By entering them one
>> by one with the exception of transcode they installed just fine.
>>
>> Now when I attempt to install mythv-frontend I receive this message:
>> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>> mythtv-frontend : Depends: transcode but it is not installable
>> E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
>>
>> I did a bit of digging into Ubuntu and I discovered the following
>> regarding transcode in yakkety:
>>
>> There is no current release of this source package in The Yakkety Yak.
>> You can still report bugs, make translations, and so on, but they might
>> not be used until the package is published.
>>
>> I’m stymied at this point and I welcome advice.
>>
> I added a comment about this earlier today to a 'frontend won't install'
> ticket.  I doubt that the transcode package is still a real requirement;
>  it was used years ago in mytharchive for requantising but has been
> replaced there.  Can apt-get 'skip-broken'?
>

The specfile of the rpmfusion build for Fedora says transcode was 
dropped as a build requirement in March 2012...