[Date Prev][Date Next] [Thread Prev][Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index]

Moving xmltv package to volatile



I'm the maintainer for the package 'xmltv', a set of utilities that download
TV listings data from various websites (generally, one or two per country).
The data grabbers use a variety of methods to extract data, some sites have
web APIs for the purpose, whereas others are implemented by scraping the
HTML.

Obviously, these utilites are prone to the occasional breakage when the
source websites make changes to their APIs or HTML layouts, similar to
problems experienced by youtube-dl et al. It seems to me that xmltv fits the
description of volatile: a packago that "aims at fast moving targets".

The majority of the new upstream releases are simply updates and bugfixes to
keep the grabbers working. Occasionally new grabbers are added to fetch data
from new sites, and sometimes old ones have to be removed if they're no
longer functional. Backporting changes to a previous upstream version
shouldn't be too tricky in most cases, if that's necessary.

Upstream are currently working towards a new release, so I'm trying to plan
ahead for what I should do with it (if nothing else, I'll get it into
experimental).

Comments welcome,

-- 
Chris Butler    <chrisb@debian.org>
  Debian XMLTV package maintainer
   GnuPG Key ID:  4096R/49E3ACD3

Attachment: signature.asc
Description: Digital signature


Reply to: