[mythtv] Found a severe decoding bug in mythffplay

Robin Gilks g8ecj at gilks.org
Tue May 8 09:52:14 UTC 2012


> On 05/04/2012 08:57 PM, Jean-Yves Avenard wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> On Saturday, 5 May 2012, Nick Morrott wrote:
>>> On 4 May 2012 23:11, Michael T. Dean
>>>
>>> On a related note: are there any plans to upload nightly 0.2x-fixes
>>> tarballs and make those available instead (or even in addition) of the
>>> release/point release tarballs on the official website, for those
>>> users who do not checkout from github or use pre-built binaries?
>> IMHO; that's what point release are for.
>
> Yeah, I don't think it's worth doing nightly tarballs or anything.
>
> Then again, I'd love to just remove the tarballs from our website and
> let users/packagers either clone the repo with git or use github tarball
> links.  TTBOMK, this would actually work, now, since Stuart M modified
> the version script to allow us to always keep a VERSION file in place,
> such that it's only used on systems without git tools or where the
> tarball contains a git export (rather than a repo).
>
> With that approach--as long as we post the -fixes tarball link rather
> than the release tag tarball link--users would still get the
> most-current fixes.
>
> Mike

Is there any chance that the packaging scripts could use this approach?
The Gentoo builds of 0.25 are now a month old and are for a release
candidate. I assume that the others (OSX, Win32, rpm etc) are in the same
position.

-- 
Robin Gilks




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