[Mageia-dev] Freeze exception? MythTV.

Thu Apr 19 19:50:14 CEST 2012

19.04.2012 00:16, Colin Guthrie kirjoitti:
+> Hi,
+> 
+> MythTV has (at last!) a new version out. I would like to include this in
+> mga2. I appreciate it's late but as a leaf package I think it'll be safe
+> enough. It'll be the version I'll likely be personally running here at
+> home (as a backport) so I'd prefer it if that was the same one I was
+> supporting generally.
+> 
+> But it's not something I'm massively worried about generally, so if
+> people have strong feelings please do make them known.
+> 
+> I've already ported the mythtv package and the LAME patches. Will do the
+> plugins one shortly (I'll need to do this anyway for my own needs so not
+> wasted effort).
+> 
+> Anssi, what do you think about including this in mga2?
+
+It indeed would be very late for such a change.
+
+But I would still probably side on the allowing side, due to the sum of
+the following reasons (which are not reasons enough on their own):
+- maintainer wants to include it and is running it himself anyway, so it
+  gets good testing and support
+- MythTV has major releases very rarely (at least so far), but the
+  release branches seem to be supported for a long time (unless I
+  misinterpret their version numbers)
+- bugs affecting the upgrade of the distribution are unlikely, since
+  this is a leaf package
+- bugs affecting the installation of the distribution are unlikely,
+  since mythtv is not part of any default installation
+- all bugs can still be fixed with /updates, and mythtv is not part
+  of any release media AFAICS
+- we don't have /backports for providing this afterwards
+
+However, if other people are against this, I guess it is better not to
+do it.
+
+-- 
+Anssi Hannula
+