Plugin package splits

Iain Lane laney at debian.org
Tue Nov 11 12:44:08 UTC 2014


Hi guys,

Over in Ubuntu (phone) land, the people working on media stuff (based on
gstreamer) want to select a few plugins to include by default, without
pulling in all of plugins{-good,-bad,-ugly}. It seems to make sense to
split the packages to support this kind of usecase. I'd do this on an
as-needed basis, *not* by splitting everything, which would create loads
of small packages. The main gstreamer1.0-plugins-* would Depend on the
split-out packages so that users would get everything if they install
those.

The splits that they're asking for are

(Already implemented in Ubuntu) bad → faad, videoparsers
ugly → AMR

WDYT? I'd obviously do the work myself, but would like to know if you
guys like or hate the idea.

Cheers,

-- 
Iain Lane                                  [ iain at orangesquash.org.uk ]
Debian Developer                                   [ laney at debian.org ]
Ubuntu Developer                                   [ laney at ubuntu.com ]
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