[UVFe] sync xmltv 0.5.49-1 (universe) from debian unstable (main)
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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xmltv (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: xmltv
Hello,
I'd like to request an exception for the upstream version freeze for XMLTV 0.5.49.
My reasons:
* XMLTV users in North America used to get EPG data from labs.zap2it.com. Nowadays, this is not possible anymore - labs.zap2it.com shut down their free service and www.schedulesdi
* Many XMLTV grabbers resort to screen-scraping in order to obtain EPG data. That's a very fragile method; those grabbers break often if the source website changes. (IMHO, that's why the latest version of XMLTV should always be available in the repos, but that's a different issue). I'll highlight some interesting changelog entries:
o 2007-09-23 21:06 cpicton: Update tv_grab_za to work with new site format
o 2007-09-12 22:54 attila_nagy: Filtering out advertisement
o 2007-09-04 09:42 gawen: grab/pt/tv_grab_pt: site layout has changed... again
o 2007-08-30 07:49 christianw: grab/no_
* Also, some grabbers were removed because they were not working anymore (blocked by data source or removed for legal reasons), eg tv_grab_de and tv_grab_de_tvtoday (Changelog says: "remove de_tvtoday and _de due to strict German copyright laws") as well as tv_grab_ch_bluewin ("ident blocked"). That's not a regression compared to 0.5.45; tv_grab_de hasn't been working in a *long* time, tv_grab_de_tvtoday was broken (IIRC) and tv_grab_ch_bluewin as blocked by the data source.
* Look at the changelog yourself, there are *lots* of bug fixes.
Here are the new entries in debian/changelog:
xmltv (0.5.49-1) unstable; urgency=low
* New upstream release
-- Chris Butler <email address hidden> Mon, 1 Oct 2007 15:18:13 +0100
xmltv (0.5.48-1) unstable; urgency=low
* New upstream release
-- Chris Butler <email address hidden> Tue, 21 Aug 2007 09:49:25 +0100
xmltv (0.5.47-1) unstable; urgency=low
* New upstream release
-- Chris Butler <email address hidden> Thu, 2 Aug 2007 12:06:32 +0100
xmltv (0.5.46-2) unstable; urgency=low
* Changed Source-Version to source:Version in the control file
* Updated tv_grab_uk_rt with a workaround for duplicate channel
names on Radio Times site
* Upped versioned dependency on libterm-
tv_grab_uk_rt requires that version of the API.
-- Chris Butler <email address hidden> Wed, 11 Jul 2007 22:29:45 +0100
xmltv (0.5.46-1) unstable; urgency=low
* New upstream release
* Modified tv_grab_pt to use the Encode module and remove the
Unicode:
package
-- Chris Butler <email address hidden> Tue, 10 Jul 2007 14:10:52 +0100
Regards,
Michael
s/merge/sync/ - sorry.