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On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 11:25 PM, Ben de Groot <yngwin@g.o> wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> As the Gentoo Qt team has announced six months ago, Qt3 is about to be |
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> masked now (see bug 283429). We sent another mail with a timeline at |
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> the end of December. Most of the issues surrounding the mask and |
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> removal of Qt3 have been solved. But we see ourselves confronted with |
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> one remaining issue: MythTV. Its current stable version uses Qt3, but |
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> there is a Qt4 version in testing. In all this time the MythTV |
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> maintainers have not taken any action. |
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Incorrect. You came to me a few months ago and I told you I would not |
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and will not have time to mess with the package at all. I think I've |
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made that clear in past mailing list posts, discussions we've had, and |
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on bugzilla. Many people have spoken up about the situation and time |
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and time again I've said "please, take over the package. It needs to |
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be stabilized and a new unstable bump needs to happen." You took one |
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of those times to create a ticket saying you'd stabilize it, then |
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deferred to me and the arch teams. My response was the arch teams |
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haven't stabilized MythTV in years because none of them have a setup |
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to test it, so please stabilize it. I'm running it on a stable |
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machine. |
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I do not have my Gentoo commit machine up and running right now. I've |
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only got my MythTV machines running x86 and amd64 with MythTV running |
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~arch for a while now. So I ask you once again, PLEASE just mark it |
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stable. SOMEONE. And quit accusing anyone of inaction. |
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As far as the news item goes, as I've said before. Its completely |
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unnecessary since MythTV will handle notifying you properly if you |
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need to do anything to your database. I can count more than a dozen |
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people on Gentoo that have successfully done the conversion without |
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issue. The problem stems from people either not reading the |
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instructions when MythTV tells them they need to take action and read |
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the update guide. Or people stupidly reading the upgrade guide, |
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thinking "oh I'll upgrade my DB early" and upgrading their DB and then |
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running their old version. A news item will probably do more harm than |
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good and will result in a lot of partial corruptions, which we already |
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have one person on the bug you guys made for the news item already |
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doing. |
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Doug Goldstein |
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