Bug#720796: gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg: FTBFS with libav9: gstffmpeg.h:63:1: error: unknown type name 'URLProtocol'

[Sebastian Ramacher]

On 2013-09-12 14:00:43, Sebastian Dröge wrote:
> On Do, 2013-09-12 at 12:57 +0200, Sebastian Ramacher wrote:
> > On 2013-09-09 20:53:03, Luk Claes wrote:
> > > >> Can/should this be removed in favour of gst-libav1.0?
> > > >
> > > > Yes it should probably be just removed. I plan to get rid of all of
> > > > gstreamer 0.10 in the next months, so let's just let this one go now
> > > > already :)
> > > 
> > > testing removal hint added.
> > 
> > That didn't work - there are reverse dependencies. Seems like
> > gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg needs to be fixed.
> 
> The rdepends should be ported to GStreamer 1.0 instead probably. Also
> most of these rdepends should at most Recommend the package.

Sure, ideally they would be ported to use GStreamer 1.0 instead. But I'd
rather not add yet another transition on top of the libav transition.

I've started to backport the necessary changes for libav 9 from
gst-libav1.0. I'm at a state where it compiles and appreciate another
pair of eyes looking over it as the patch got really large.

Regards
-- 
Sebastian Ramacher
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