Bug#669718: gnome-dvb-client: gnome-dvb-setup fails to scan uk-CrystalPalace since DSO

[Simon Paillard]

severity 669718 important
thanks 

Hi,

On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 11:51:53AM +0100, Russel Winder wrote:
> Package: gnome-dvb-client
> Version: 1:0.2.8-1
> Severity: grave
> Tags: upstream
> Justification: renders package unusable

I don't think it deserve grave severity, the package is still useful to many
users outside UK, at most important, could even be normal.
http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#severities

> The "digital switch over" (DSO) -- closing of analogue television transmision
> -- has involved quite a convoluted rearrangement of the multiplexes and
> channels.  The DSO completed for London, and in my case Crystal Palace,
> 2012-04-18.
> The channel data distributed with dvb-apps is now incorrect, but that is a
> separate bug report.

For the record and in order to help gnome-dvb-daemon maintainer, it's 
http://bugs.debian.org/669715
"dvb-apps: Channel/frequency/etc. data needs updating for London transmitters" 

> I calculated the relevant data from the OfCom documents and can see all the
> SD channels at the calculated frequencies using vlc.  I created a variant of
> the /usr/share/dvb/dvb-t/uk-CrystalPalace datafile, but using this,
> gnome-dvb-setup failed to find any channels when scanning.

You could follow https://live.gnome.org/DVBDaemon/Debugging and provide the
debug info.

-- 
Simon Paillard