[Mageia-dev] Freeze exception? MythTV.

Fri Apr 20 17:32:27 CEST 2012

'Twas brillig, and Anssi Hannula at 19/04/12 18:50 did gyre and gimble:
+> 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.
+
+It seems that there has not been a chorus of disapproval, so I've
+committed and requested a push.
+
+Can still revert if someone steps in with a big objection.
+
+Right, I'm done with any freeze version exception requests. I'll be a
+good boy from now on :D (probably).
+
+Col
+
+
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