[scott967]

So I have a dependency in a skin add-on (<requires>) for an add-on which was part of the official Kodi repository. Apparently team Kodi pulled the add-on out of their repo. The problem is that broke the install for my add-ons. Well, OK, that's on me I get that. But how I found out is when users start complaining my add-on doesn't install. So I guess my first question, is there some way for devs to find out (mailing list or something) when something like this happens? Now the next problem is, I haven't studied this but apparently what happens is when Kodi 15.2 at least installs my repo, it marks my add-on as broken in Addons19. I guess as a result, when a user browses my repo the add-on never shows up unless they know to unselect the default "hide incompatible". Now even if I install the missing add-on from zip, my add-on still is showing as "incompatible". So my second question, is once an add-on is marked as broken/incompatible, is there some way to get to "unbreak" it in the database after manually installing the dependency?

This is really causing me support problems.

scott s.
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[Torben]

Could you include the code from the missing addon into your own addon abd distribute it rhat way?

I'm new to this so it's not really an educated advice :-)

[Martijn]

i'm guessing it a skin that relied on a subtitles add-on which is WRONG. A skin should never, ever rely on such add-ons.

[scott967]

i'm guessing it a skin that relied on a subtitles add-on which is WRONG. A skin should never, ever rely on such add-ons.

Fair enough. Is there some guidance on what add-ons can be relied on? For example, I see skins that have required add-ons such as service.skin.widgets and script.artwork.downloader. Are those considered "trusted add-ons" that can be relied on?

In this case I guess in the past skin required script.xbmc.subtitles and after the change of subtitle handling in Gotham I'm guessing the skin author assumed that service.subtitles.opensubtitles was the "approved" successor (but I have no way of knowing).

scott s.
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[ronie]

it's not a matter of 'approved'/'trusted' or not but rather if it makes sense to depend on such an addon in the skin.
i can't think of a reason why a skin requires a subtitle addon to be installed?

[Martijn]

Do note we make a weighed decision if we remove something. We check possible impact and go from there.

For example removing widgets or artwork downloader would break a lot of skins so we first discuss with the skinners what to do.

In this case it was one skin for gotham....