[mythtv-users] Is debian mythtv broken because of python dependencies?

[stuart]

Jongi wrote:
>   On 06/21/2010 09:58 PM, Raymond Wagner wrote:
>> On 6/21/2010 14:19, stuart wrote:
>>> But the current version of python is 2.6.5-3 which is newer than 
>>> python-mythtv can handle.
>>
>> What is telling you that 2.6.5 is too new for the MythTV python 
>> bindings?  The 2.6 branch should be bugfixes only.  There should be no 
>> issue running the bindings on 2.6.5, and there is certainly nothing 
>> official from MythTV that would prevent you from using them.
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> Remember he is talking about debian packages and how the maintainer has 
> built them. So the below shows that python-mythtv (which is required by 
> the mythvideo package) is built with the specific requirement that 
> python has to be lower than 2.6. I am sure he could email Christian and 
> Christian would fix it. I have found him to be quite accomodative in the 
> past when I have had problems.
> 
> mythtv-debian:~# aptitude why python-mythtv
> i   mythvideo Depends python-mythtv
> 
> mythtv-debian:~# aptitude why mythvideo
> i   mythtv-frontend Suggests mythvideo
> 
> mythtv-debian:~# aptitude show python-mythtv
> Package: python-mythtv
> New: yes
> State: installed
> Automatically installed: no
> Version: 0.23-0.2
> Priority: optional
> Section: python
> Maintainer: Christian Marillat <marillat at debian.org>
> Uncompressed Size: 422k
> Depends: python (< 2.6), python (>= 2.5), python-support (>= 0.90.0)
> Description: A personal video recorder application (common data)
>  MythTV provides a unified graphical interface for recording and viewing 
> television programs. Refer to the mythtv package for more information.
>  
>  This package contains Python bindings to access mythtv datas.
> Homepage: http://www.mythtv.org/
> 
> mythtv-debian:~# apt-cache policy python
> python:
>   Installed: 2.5.4-9
>   Candidate: 2.6.5-3
>   Version table:
>      2.6.5-3 0
>         500 http://ftp.uk.debian.org unstable/main Packages
>         500 http://debian.mirror.ac.za unstable/main Packages
>  *** 2.5.4-9 0
>         500 http://ftp.uk.debian.org testing/main Packages
>         500 http://debian.mirror.ac.za testing/main Packages
>         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>      2.5.2-3 0
>         500 http://ftp.uk.debian.org stable/main Packages
>         500 http://debian.mirror.ac.za stable/main Packages
> 
> 
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Done (emailed Christian the thread).

-thanks