Bug#570611: Bug#669920: Please provide a backport for squeeze
On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 12:49:24AM -0400, Andres Mejia wrote: On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 8:46 PM, Josh Triplett j...@joshtriplett.org wrote: On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 06:53:57PM -0400, Andres Mejia wrote: On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 6:10 PM, Josh Triplett j...@joshtriplett.org wrote: Package: libcrystalhd-dev Severity: wishlist Please consider providing a backport of libcrystalhd-dev for squeeze. Such a backport would make it easier to prepare MythTV packages for squeeze. Thanks, Josh Triplett -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Hi Josh, Were you trying to package MythTV to unstable at all? IMO that should be done first before attempting to upload for squeeze (i.e. actually get accepted, get tested in unstable, migrate to testing, then backport to stable). At the moment I'm just building some local packages, not official backports. I'd love to see official MythTV packages, and I'd be happy to help work on them, but that wasn't my goal at the moment. - Josh Triplett I recommend starting off by porting the Ubuntu packaging of MythTV to Debian. I actually started from the debian-multimedia packaging, and hacked out all the bits that depended on packages outside of Debian, as well as dependency cruft that applied to previous versions but not to the current version. I've managed to successfully build working squeeze packages at this point, which only depend on packages in Debian to build and run; installing them requires a couple of packages from squeeze-backports (fonts-droid, libmp3lame0, libx264-120, libxvidcore4), and a locally built backport of libcrystalhd3, and all the rest of the dependencies come from squeeze. I presume if these are local packages, you're using reprepro or something similar to host a local archive. In such a case, you may as well build packages of libcrystalhd and upload them to your local archive. Then you can build mythtv. I did end up building local packages of crystalhd and libcec, which proved relatively straightforward. Note that mythtv is using it's own copy of ffmpeg. It needs to be modified so it can build/run with system libav before it can be uploaded to Debian. If that's something you're interested in doing, by all means, feel free to modify mythtv source tree, and preferably work with mythtv upstream to pass along patches. Yeah, I do know about that problem. Arguably not an issue for an upload to Debian experimental; only an issue for having a version in a security-supportable release. Considering that upstream went out of their way to remove support for system libav/ffmpeg (due to issues with different versions on end-user systems, particularly versions of the command-line tools), I suspect they might not like the idea of adding it back, or for that matter the idea of adding support for using avconv rather than ffmpeg. This needs a long conversation with upstream before attempting to write a patch; no sense writing a patch that'll never make it upstream. - Josh Triplett -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120422093318.GA4379@leaf
Bug#570611: Bug#669920: Please provide a backport for squeeze
On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 6:10 PM, Josh Triplett j...@joshtriplett.org wrote: Package: libcrystalhd-dev Severity: wishlist Please consider providing a backport of libcrystalhd-dev for squeeze. Such a backport would make it easier to prepare MythTV packages for squeeze. Thanks, Josh Triplett -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Hi Josh, Were you trying to package MythTV to unstable at all? IMO that should be done first before attempting to upload for squeeze (i.e. actually get accepted, get tested in unstable, migrate to testing, then backport to stable). How was the packaging going to be done? Were you using the Ubuntu packaging of MythTV as a baseline? -- ~ Andres -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAPM41nMyJQBFxpHzKRK9T9h8tbLE3uq9m=0reG=kv32cxjv...@mail.gmail.com
Bug#570611: Bug#669920: Please provide a backport for squeeze
On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 06:53:57PM -0400, Andres Mejia wrote: On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 6:10 PM, Josh Triplett j...@joshtriplett.org wrote: Package: libcrystalhd-dev Severity: wishlist Please consider providing a backport of libcrystalhd-dev for squeeze. Such a backport would make it easier to prepare MythTV packages for squeeze. Thanks, Josh Triplett -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Hi Josh, Were you trying to package MythTV to unstable at all? IMO that should be done first before attempting to upload for squeeze (i.e. actually get accepted, get tested in unstable, migrate to testing, then backport to stable). At the moment I'm just building some local packages, not official backports. I'd love to see official MythTV packages, and I'd be happy to help work on them, but that wasn't my goal at the moment. - Josh Triplett -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120422004617.GA30987@leaf
Bug#570611: Bug#669920: Please provide a backport for squeeze
On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 8:46 PM, Josh Triplett j...@joshtriplett.org wrote: On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 06:53:57PM -0400, Andres Mejia wrote: On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 6:10 PM, Josh Triplett j...@joshtriplett.org wrote: Package: libcrystalhd-dev Severity: wishlist Please consider providing a backport of libcrystalhd-dev for squeeze. Such a backport would make it easier to prepare MythTV packages for squeeze. Thanks, Josh Triplett -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Hi Josh, Were you trying to package MythTV to unstable at all? IMO that should be done first before attempting to upload for squeeze (i.e. actually get accepted, get tested in unstable, migrate to testing, then backport to stable). At the moment I'm just building some local packages, not official backports. I'd love to see official MythTV packages, and I'd be happy to help work on them, but that wasn't my goal at the moment. - Josh Triplett I recommend starting off by porting the Ubuntu packaging of MythTV to Debian. I presume if these are local packages, you're using reprepro or something similar to host a local archive. In such a case, you may as well build packages of libcrystalhd and upload them to your local archive. Then you can build mythtv. Note that mythtv is using it's own copy of ffmpeg. It needs to be modified so it can build/run with system libav before it can be uploaded to Debian. If that's something you're interested in doing, by all means, feel free to modify mythtv source tree, and preferably work with mythtv upstream to pass along patches. -- ~ Andres -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAPM41nOzP_4w5XrY9hC8aWo5hXp7MdpNngjM4gitvoYHZEu7=w...@mail.gmail.com
Bug#570611: Bug#669920: Please provide a backport for squeeze
Andres Mejia amejia...@gmail.com writes: [...] I recommend starting off by porting the Ubuntu packaging of MythTV to Debian. I presume if these are local packages, you're using reprepro or something similar to host a local archive. In such a case, you may as well build packages of libcrystalhd and upload them to your local archive. Then you can build mythtv. It is a joke ? MythTV packages for Debian exist since 2002 packaged by Matt Zimmerman and by me since 2005 and you ignore this work ? Don't be surprised if I continue to package MythTV in my repository. Christian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87aa249ve9@christian.marillat.net
