Hello,
I installed the new mythtv-dmo 31.0-dmo2 packages on testing/bullseye,
and ran into a problem where mythfrontend would often freeze shortly
after starting because the theme updater was going berserk, seeking to
update the mythfrontend themes repeatedly.
It turns out (
https://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/13413 provided a
hint) the problem is related to the formatting of the version strings
embedded in mythfrontend. For some reason, certain formats cause the
theme updater to run repeatedly.
In the mythtv-dmo package, the EXPORTED_VERSION file is as follows:
SOURCE_VERSION="9579662cdcb"
BRANCH=" (tag: v31.0, fixes/31)"
The resulting version strings in mythfrontend (output of mythfrontend
--version) are:
MythTV Version : v31.0-9579662cdcb
MythTV Branch : fixes/31
For whatever reason, as noted above, this breaks mythfrontend. But if
I replace EXPORTED_VERSION with upstream's version:
SOURCE_VERSION="$Format:%h$"
BRANCH="$Format:%d$"
...and rebuild the packages, then the output of mythfrontend --version is:
MythTV Version : v31.0
MythTV Branch :
And, strangely, this fixes mythfrontend. No more theme updater going haywire.
Obviously there's an upstream bug here, but for now the simplest fix
would be to fall back to upstream's EXPORTED_VERSION. If there's a
downside, I don't see it, and I would note that earlier mythtv-dmo
packages used the upstream EXPORTED_VERSION.
Thanks very much for your work packaging mythtv.
