Bug#742037: gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg: 686 days old; stuck in Sid since forever

[Ralf Jung]

Hi,

> gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg has apparently been stuck in Sid for about 2 years.
> While I notice an FTBFS against libav9, does this concern libav10 too or
> is there any other reason for this lenghty situation?

That count of 686 days is wrong, it got removed from testing in October
2013 and then the QA page seems to use the most recent upload (April
2012) for the counter.

The work of porting the plugin to libav9 seems to have stalled, see the
discussion at the bottom of
<https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=720796>. This is
rather unfortunate as it breaks video/mp4 support in Firefox, which
relies on exactly this gstreamer plugin. Firefox has gstreamer 1.0
support in the current development branch, but seemingly they don't want
to enable it per default due to some distros (like Debian stable) not
supporting gstreamer 1.0.

Kind regards
Ralf