[Pkg-mythtv-maintainers] Bug#448893: Bug#448893: ivtv-utils will need to be upgraded in stable for "etch-and-a-half"

[Marc Sherman]

dann frazier wrote:
> 
> For modules, my immediate thought is to find the first option below
> that works:
> 
>  1) Does the existing version work with 2.6.23 as-is?
>  2) Can support for 2.6.23 be easily added to the existing version in
>     such a way that you can demonstrate low-risk of regressions for
>     2.6.18? By this I mean the changes are small and easy to review,
>     and perhaps are #ifdef'd to avoid changing behavior on 2.6.18.
>  3) If we really need a new upstream version of the module, can you
>     include the source to both modules such that the "old" version is
>     used for 2.6.18, and the new for 2.6.23?
>  4) As a last resort, we could consider adding a second package,
>     e.g. ivtv-source-2.6.23. I don't really like this idea
>     much because it seems pretty confusing for users. But, if prebuilt
>     ivtv-modules packages are provided by one of the linux-modules-
>     congolmeration packages, we can perhaps hide these details from
>     them.
> 
> Anyway, I'm glad to see people already considering the impact of this,
> thanks!

It's actually not the module that needs to be updated. The problem is 
that in 2.6.22, the ivtv kernel module moved into the upstream kernel, 
so 2.6.23 includes a newer version of the ivtv module than the one 
shipping in etch. But the ivtv-utils userspace package that ships in 
etch is only compatible with the 0.8 kernel module; it needs to be 
updated for compatibility with the 2.6.23 kernel.

- Marc