Maybe once Jessie goes stable we can also move to more "recent" libraries and avoid problems with other up-to-date distributions at some point.....
That'd be great. It's basically in the RC stage now, isn't it? If so, might not have to wait too much longer. Granted I don't keep up with Debian's development as much as I do Ubuntu's.
But I think its nice that the APT repository allows us to easily provide proper dependency-aware builds for both debian and ubuntu at least!
Yup. In fact, it's quite easy to fork the mediacenter20.list file for both Debian and Ubuntu. AFAIK, Ubuntu will automatically strip out the [arch=i386,amd64] portion. Something like...
sudo wget http://dist.jriver.com/latest/mediacenter/mediacenter20_debian.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mediacenter20.list
And...
sudo wget http://dist.jriver.com/latest/mediacenter/mediacenter20_ubuntu.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mediacenter20.list
But that's probably too bothersome.