Re: MythTV 31 - versioning causing frontend lock-ups

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Author: Christian Marillat
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To: dmo-discussion
Subject: Re: MythTV 31 - versioning causing frontend lock-ups
On 01 mai 2020 12:32, Christopher Martin <chrsmrtn@???> wrote:

> Hello,


Hello,


[...]

> 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)"


[...]

> 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 for thebug report. Should be fixed in unstable 31.0-dmo3 and
later in stable-backports.

Christian