Bug#570611: ITP: mythtv -- A personal video recorder application

2014-01-30 Thread Wookey
+++ Mark Purcell [2014-01-25 12:55 +1100]: This is the right place for discussion about getting mythtv into Debian. Thanks for this work it looks useful but I won't be able to have good look for a few days. The two critical issues are : 1. Does it build against the

Bug#570611: ITP: mythtv -- A personal video recorder application

2014-01-24 Thread Wookey
I did some more work on this package, fixing the things that were obvious issues on Debian: Add init script fix libtiff5-dev - libtiff-dev build-dep issue Fix nonexistent 'syslog' user in postinsts script of mythtv-common Add -Wdeprecated-declarations so that mythtarchive plugin builds Add

Bug#570611: ITP: mythtv -- A personal video recorder application

2014-01-24 Thread Mark Purcell
On Jan 25, 2014 3:45 AM, Wookey woo...@wookware.org wrote: Is there a more stable branch I should be working against, and if you are happy with this stuff would it make sense to give me git access (or do we have some kind of review process or some other place to ddiscuss things than this bug?)

Bug#570611: ITP: mythtv -- A personal video recorder application

2013-12-26 Thread Wookey
On Wed, 9 Oct 2013, Mario Limonciello wrote: Just wanted to give you an update on where things are with this packaging. I've cleaned up a majority of the stuff I found with it on master, either upstream, via an override, or in the packaging tree. There are two lintian errors I would like to

Bug#570611: ITP: mythtv -- A personal video recorder application

2013-03-02 Thread Andres Mejia
On Friday, July 20, 2012, Wookey wrote: Hi, I've been using the deb-mulitmedia mythtv packages for many years (thanx for that work), and having just had to re-install stuff and noting the long existence of mythbuntu was wondering why there were still no packages in Debian. So I came to this

Bug#570611: ITP: mythtv -- A personal video recorder application

2012-07-20 Thread Wookey
Hi, I've been using the deb-mulitmedia mythtv packages for many years (thanx for that work), and having just had to re-install stuff and noting the long existence of mythbuntu was wondering why there were still no packages in Debian. So I came to this bug. I'm happy to help out, and would also

Bug#570611: ITP: mythtv -- A personal video recorder application

2012-01-16 Thread Andres Mejia
One other thing was mythtv's use of an internal ffmpeg. It needs to be able to use system ffmpeg/libav libraries before it can be uploaded to Debian. At least with Debian/Ubuntu, it needs to run with system libav.

Bug#570611: ITP: mythtv -- A personal video recorder application (status update)

2010-11-25 Thread Andres Mejia
Just a small update. I'm mainly waiting to see if lame will enter Debian or not to see if I should worry about modifying mythtv to dlopen lame. Also, mythtv would have to use system ffmpeg to be suitable for Debian. That's it for now. 1. http://ftp-master.debian.org/new/lame_3.98.4-1.html --

Bug#570611: ITP: mythtv -- A personal video recorder application

2010-02-23 Thread John Goerzen
Andres Mejia wrote: Some work has already been done towards getting mythtv into Debian. Take a look at Vcs-Git: git://git.debian.org/git/collab-maint/mythtv.git Vcs-Browser: http://git.debian.org/?p=collab-maint/mythtv.git You might take a look at the packages on debian-multimedia.org,

Bug#570611: ITP: mythtv -- A personal video recorder application

2010-02-22 Thread Andres Mejia
On Saturday 20 February 2010 03:50:24 Mark Purcell wrote: On Saturday 20 February 2010 17:25:51 Andres Mejia wrote: This would than follow with having mythtv use libmp3lame via dlopen. There's also an interest upstream to use vorbis as a replacement/alternative to mp3. Andres, Very

Bug#570611: [Pkg-mythtv-maintainers] Bug#570611: ITP: mythtv -- A personal video recorder application

2010-02-20 Thread Mark Purcell
On Saturday 20 February 2010 17:25:51 Andres Mejia wrote: This would than follow with having mythtv use libmp3lame via dlopen. There's also an interest upstream to use vorbis as a replacement/alternative to mp3. Andres, Very keen to see this happen, the major issues previously were MP3

Bug#570611: [Pkg-mythtv-maintainers] Bug#570611: ITP: mythtv -- A personal video recorder application

2010-02-20 Thread Andres Mejia
On Saturday 20 February 2010 03:50:24 Mark Purcell wrote: On Saturday 20 February 2010 17:25:51 Andres Mejia wrote: This would than follow with having mythtv use libmp3lame via dlopen. There's also an interest upstream to use vorbis as a replacement/alternative to mp3. Andres, Very

Bug#570611: [ubuntu-mythtv] Bug#570611: ITP: mythtv -- A personal video recorder application

2010-02-20 Thread Andres Mejia
On Saturday 20 February 2010 02:50:04 Mario Limonciello wrote: Andres: Additionally; i'd recommend you do this for a 0.23 based build. They're doing RC next week and targeting release next month, so it would make more sense to be able to support that (especially since patches on top of /

Bug#570611: [ubuntu-mythtv] Bug#570611: ITP: mythtv -- A personal video recorder application

2010-02-20 Thread Mario Limonciello
Since it's a git server, is it possible to import upstream svn instead? Maybe would that work better and allow pulling in their commits more easily? On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 10:43, Andres Mejia mcita...@gmail.com wrote: On Saturday 20 February 2010 02:50:04 Mario Limonciello wrote: Andres:

Bug#570611: [ubuntu-mythtv] Bug#570611: ITP: mythtv -- A personal video recorder application

2010-02-20 Thread Andres Mejia
On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 12:32 PM, Mario Limonciello supe...@ubuntu.com wrote: Since it's a git server, is it possible to import upstream svn instead? Yes it is, since you can just use git-svn.  Maybe would that work better and allow pulling in their commits more easily? On Sat, Feb 20, 2010

Bug#570611: [ubuntu-mythtv] Bug#570611: ITP: mythtv -- A personal video recorder application

2010-02-20 Thread Andres Mejia
On Saturday 20 February 2010 02:50:04 Mario Limonciello wrote: Andres: Additionally; i'd recommend you do this for a 0.23 based build. They're doing RC next week and targeting release next month, so it would make more sense to be able to support that (especially since patches on top of /

Bug#570611: ITP: mythtv -- A personal video recorder application

2010-02-19 Thread Andres Mejia
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andres Mejia mcita...@gmail.com * Package name: mythtv Version : 0.22 Upstream Author : Isaac Richards i...@po.cwru.edu * URL : http://www.mythtv.org/ * License : GPL-2 Programming Lang: C, C++, Perl, Python,

Bug#570611: [ubuntu-mythtv] Bug#570611: ITP: mythtv -- A personal video recorder application

2010-02-19 Thread Andres Mejia
On Saturday 20 February 2010 01:25:51 Andres Mejia wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andres Mejia mcita...@gmail.com * Package name: mythtv Version : 0.22 Upstream Author : Isaac Richards i...@po.cwru.edu * URL : http://www.mythtv.org/ * License

Bug#570611: [ubuntu-mythtv] Bug#570611: ITP: mythtv -- A personal video recorder application

2010-02-19 Thread Mario Limonciello
Hi Andres: I appreciate this effort! If we can really see this to a reality, I'll gladly help push more of the ubuntu specific things that are making mythtv a good experience on Ubuntu up to Debian. I'm a little worried however on using the system ffmpeg. Upstream frowns upon this currently,

Bug#570611: [ubuntu-mythtv] Bug#570611: ITP: mythtv -- A personal video recorder application

2010-02-19 Thread Mario Limonciello
Andres: Additionally; i'd recommend you do this for a 0.23 based build. They're doing RC next week and targeting release next month, so it would make more sense to be able to support that (especially since patches on top of / replacing ffmpeg will change significantly I expect) On Sat, Feb 20,