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["Brian J. Murrell" <brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2011-01-27 at 17:03 +0000, Mario Limonciello wrote: 
> We no longer ship an /etc/default/mythtv-backend.

Yes, that is sounding familiar now.

> The preferred method
> now is to just make changes directly to the upstart job to match your
> environment.

That's a pain to have to do.  Why should I have to interact with package
installation when there is a solution to avoid it completely, 100% of
the time?

> It shouldn't be changing very frequently, so don't expect
> to have to do merges commonly.

Well, I just had to merge it yet again.

But I say again, if you just apply the patch I supplied nobody will
every have to merge ever again.  Doesn't this make more sense from a
packaging and administration perspective?

The solution I am proposing is completely benign to those that don't use
it and is a net positive to those that do.  Why are you resisting it?
What harm is caused by applying it?

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/708643

Title:
  /etc/init/mythtv-backend needs to source /etc/default/mythtv-backend

Status in Mythbuntu, Ubuntu derivative focused upon MythTV:
  Won't Fix

Bug description:
  I thought I had reported this once before but I could not find any
  sign of it.  Perhaps I just discussed it in IRC or something.

  In any case, the backend initscript needs to source /etc/default
  /mythtv-backend as it did previously when it was an /etc/init.d/
  initscript.

  The reason is that some people might need to set some environment that
  will affect the backend process, such as, for example:

  # need to set the proxy for mythfilldatabase
  export http_proxy=http://proxy:3128/

  It's a simple one line change:

  --- /etc/init/mythtv-backend.conf.new	2010-12-30 19:00:10.000000000 -0500
  +++ /etc/init/mythtv-backend.conf	2010-11-17 07:29:58.000000000 -0500
  @@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
   end script
   
   script
  +	. /etc/default/mythtv-backend
   	test -f /etc/default/locale && . /etc/default/locale || true
   	LANG=$LANG /usr/bin/mythbackend --logfile /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log --user mythtv
   end script

  In the case of people who have no need for it, the above change is
  benign, but for people who do need it, it's very useful, so there
  really should be no reason to resist it.