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

[Martin-Éric Racine]

2014-04-16 10:14 GMT+03:00 Ralf Jung <post at ralfj.de>:
> 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.

Noted.

> 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.

What would prevent Debian from enabling the right Configure option in
debian/rules to use 1.0 on testing/unstable uploads?

Martin-Éric