infrastructure to export the codec installation,informations

[Fabian Greffrath]

Dear Sebastian,

I've read the following in the changelog for gstreamer0.10 (0.10.20-2):

* debian/gst-codec-info.c,
debian/control.in,
debian/rules,
debian/dh_gstscancodecs,
debian/libgstreamer-dev.install:
+ Implement infrastructure to export the codec installation
informations via binary package control fields. Move dh_gstscancodecs
to the -dev package and implement helper utility gst-codec-info-0.10
for getting the codec information for a package.

Could you please explain in short words what that means? I've seen the 
code but still cannot imagine what is actually going to happen...

Cheers,
Fabian

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