Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Pending mask of Qt3 and MythTV

[Ben de Groot]

On 24 February 2010 08:15, Doug Goldstein <cardoe@g.o> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 11:25 PM, Ben de Groot <yngwin@g.o> wrote:
[...]
>> one remaining issue: MythTV. Its current stable version uses Qt3, but
>> there is a Qt4 version in testing. In all this time the MythTV
>> maintainers have not taken any action.
>
> Incorrect. You came to me a few months ago and I told you I would not
> and will not have time to mess with the package at all. I think I've
> made that clear in past mailing list posts, discussions we've had, and
> on bugzilla. Many people have spoken up about the situation and time
> and time again I've said "please, take over the package. It needs to
> be stabilized and a new unstable bump needs to happen."

As we are all volunteers, I appreciate that you may not have time to
do what this package needs. That is not an accusation, just a
statement of facts. What you could maybe have done is reassign
this package to maintainer-needed, as that seems to be more
accurate. But it is co-assigned to the mythtv herd, and the other
herd members have also not helped out in this issue.

> My response was [...] please stabilize it. I'm running it on a stable
> machine. [...] So I ask you once again, PLEASE just mark it
> stable. SOMEONE.

Which is why we added arches to the bug for stabilization. But
then the issue came up that we really need a news item.

> As far as the news item goes, as I've said before. Its completely
> unnecessary since MythTV will handle notifying you properly if you
> need to do anything to your database.

A good number of people seem to disagree. I actually haven't
heard anyone saying we don't need a news item, apart from you.

But I'm happy to defer to QA, whatever they think is the best
solution.

Cheers,
-- 
Ben de Groot
Gentoo Linux developer (qt, media, lxde, desktop-misc)
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