Comment 1 for bug 1737283

It seems in fact that the above description is just the tip of the iceberg and what really needs doing is to install newer versions of dependent python packages as described here:

https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/TheTVDB_API_v2

under the "Ubuntu and Mythbuntu Trusty (14.04)" heading.

In fact all I really needed to update were python-{urllib3,requests} to the Xenial versions of those packges, 1.13.1-2 and 2.9.1-3 respectively.

As easy as that is to do manually, once you discover that things are indeed (pretty silently -- until you notice you are not getting metadata any more) broken, it would be much nicer if upgrading these packages happened when installing 0.29 on Trusty. To that end, a simple backport of those two packages from Xenial to Trusty in the Mythbuntu Trusty PPA would be awesome.