Re: Myth 0.27 Plans

On 24/09/2013 2:06 AM, Axel Thimm wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 10:05:07PM -0400, Nicolas Riendeau wrote:
>> On 2013-09-20 8:35 AM, OM Ugarcina wrote:
>>> Do we have plans to start building .27 into regular stable repos
>>> since the official release of upstream
> Of course. The last build from 0.27 master was 6-7 weeks ago - I hope
> there wasn't too much changed in that time (from a builder's
> perspective) - if there are no surprises there will be new package up
> soon in the stable repos.
>
>>> [...] Those guys are quick to drop the old stuff, I guess it's
>>> onwards and upwards from now on.
>> Almost a year and a half is quick? (-;
>>
>> (0.25 was released about a year and a half ago...)
>>
>> Except for trivial stuff it would be difficult to backport anything
>> worthwhile to more than one or two versions (for example backport
>> something from master to 0.27 and 0.26) and we don't have the
>> manpower to do it (without affecting regular development that is)...
>>
>> Have a nice day!
>>
>> Nicolas
>> (MythTV developer)
> As far as I know the migration from version to version was mostly
> smooth, so I agree with Nicolas - the way to maintain your mythtv
> setup (*if* it needs maintenance at all) is to upgrade.
>
> mythtv has the fixes branch for several years now which proved very
> helpful to close the gaps between releases. Also the packaging is
> trying hard to make your upgrade process almost just a "yum upgrade".
>
> I will respin a 0.26.1 with all current fixes and a 0.27 with the few
> fixes that are already in the git.
Any chance of spinning 0.27 for EL6?

I'm doing some test compiles using epel qt5.1

Cheers
Stephen