On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 12:55:06PM +0100, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > > Anyway, the point seems moot - the reason why there's no packages in > > > Debian seems entirely political, if I read Sven's message right. > > > > Well, there are two issues, the fact that there are no packages in the > > archive > > (for fear of persecution from the movie-guys or whateer), and the fact that > > Well, persecution for what reason? Is there non-free or patented code > included? That's what they usually get serious about.
They sue teenager girls because their parents bought software like the kaza stuff or whatever it was, so ... > > mythtv doesn't build out of the box on powerpc. > > > > > Someone needs to build the Ubuntu packages for unstable and set up an > > > > Do the ubuntu packages build on powerpc ? > > Or so someone claimed on the list. I wouldn't know. I have seen it run, but it was on gentoo using some highly patched stuff, not really reproducible, the packages from MAtt zimmerman failed to build out of the box. > > > inoffocial apt-gettable repo, that's all. Or else, some developer needs to > > > be convinced to set up an alioth project - to what extent politics might > > > interfere there I don't know. > > > > None, as you only need to convince the alioth admins and not the > > ftp-masters. > > Let's first see someone build the Ubuntu packages for ppc. In case I > wasn't clear enough - this is a job that can and should be done by any > user interested in having MythTV for powerpc and capable of running > apt-get source and dpkg-buildpackage on it. I clearly fit this description, but then you need to add someone with time to deal with it :) > If that doesn't work, there's no point in bothering the alioth admins. I disagree, a alioth project means a svn repo, which means people can cooperatively work together on this, instead of a part of the work smoldering on my offline harddisk for example. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
