On Tue, 2017-08-22 at 15:34 +0200, Nils Freydank wrote: > Am Dienstag, 22. August 2017, 09:01:07 CEST schrieb Raffaele Belardi: > > […] > > > [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=604430 > > > [2] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=575232 > > > > Just as follow up, inspired by [2] I fixed the mythtv build issue > > by > > adding #include <sys/sysmacros.h> to videosource.cpp and continuing > > the > > build with ebuild instead of emerge. > > Great! In general, to improve Gentoo a bit further, you could create > a patch > at this point, test applying it via /etc/portage/patches/ and add it > to the > bugtracker (or paste it here or in IRC asking someone to paste it in > your > name) ;-)
I agree that would be the correct way. My intention was to add a comment in the bugtracker stating the above but things have already evolved as you noticed. > (I guess you can avoid that in this case as another dev said that bug > is fixed > upstream now.) > > BTW, mythtv has no maintainer, might you be interested in a proxied > maintainership? Not sure about the implications (read: effort), mythtv is a huge beast... raffaele
