Bug#894387: gst-plugins-bad1.0: Corebird can't playvideos anymore

[Sebastian Dröge]

On Thu, 2018-03-29 at 19:24 +0200, Philip Rinn wrote:
> 
> > So we'll have to get that solved somehow
> 
> Is there another solution than adding a dependency on gstreamer1.0-
> gtk3 in corebird? (Besides adding it to gstreamer1.0-plugins-good
> which you obviously don't want).

GStreamer has a mechanism to tell you about missing plugins and ask the
user to install it. On Debian this is handled via
/etc/alternatives/gstreamer-codec-install , which usually then points
to packagekit and would ask the user to install the gstreamer1.0-gtk3
package then.

But as corebird apparently does not use that API in the current
version, that's also not a very useful solution.


I don't see a solution that a) requires no changes to corebird, b)
doesn't let gstreamer1.0-plugins-good (or -bad) pull in GTK as a
dependency and defeat the purpose of splitting it off into its own
package.

We should really just somehow get the new package into testing fast,
which is currently blocked on mesa.
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