Build (and include) mythtv-0.20 for Edgy
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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mythtv (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
I don't know if anyone's noticed, but the people in charge of mythtv don't really have a strong grip on the concept of releases. Anyone using mythtv for any length of time will know that the best way to get an up-to-date and stable release of mythtv is to check it out from SVN.
As of today (30/8/6), Edgy still lists 0.18.1 as its mythtv version, despite the fact that 0.20 has now been feature-frozen for release in ~14 days and 0.19/0.19-fixes have been around for a very long time.
I have read comments in similar bugs saying that Edgy can't get an updated version until debian-multimedia has it, yada yada. But if this leads to the current situation, then this system is clearly not working for the benefit of the users.
Suggestions:
1) someone from Ubuntu packages 0.20-svn and pushes it to debian-multimedia, tracking svn as often as they can until the final release.
or
2) Ubuntu stops tracking debian for this one.
The worst that happens is some terrible, unfixable breakage is discovered in 0.20 (through EARLY AVAILABILITY in Edgy Knots!) and the version is reverted to 0.18.1/0.19, i.e. with virtually no extra effort/time needed.
The best that happens is that Edgy (note the name of this release!) gets an up-to-date, more feature-complete (e.g. DVB subtitles) version of mythtv, and every USER is happy!
Please please PLEASE don't let this be prevented on account of beaurocracy - I'm going to put a poll for this on ubuntuforums to confirm that there is community support for this!
Ubuntuforums poll:
http:// ubuntuforums. org/showthread. php?t=247191