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

[Wookey <wookey@wookware.org>]

+++ 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 Depends from Debian only, and

yes.

>    2. Does all the code within the upstream mythtv base meet the DFSG?

Good question. I note that there is over 350MB of it(!). I hope that's
mostly graphics, but of course those have licences too.

>    We have a team setup on [2]alioth.debian.org called pkg-mythtv which
>    hasn't seen a lot of attention recent days, including an svn archive.
>    Please login to alioth and request membership of that team and I can grant
>    you commit access.

done.

I tested the packages I built and they seem to work nicely. The
initscript does its job. I did get a hang in the video after an hour or
so. No idea which component is causing an issue there.

I'll try them on my real box next week.

Wookey
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