2009/6/4 Jan de Groot <jan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > On Thu, 2009-06-04 at 16:43 +0200, Lukáš Jirkovský wrote: >> Hello, >> I've a question - why are gstreamer packages named gstreamer0.10 and >> not gstreamer? I can see it also in Debian, but I don't see any sense >> in appending version to the package name. >> >> Lukas "stativ" > > This is because we used to have gstreamer (0.8) and gstreamer0.10 > (0.10). Applications working with 0.8 don't work with 0.10, and the > other way around. After a year or so most apps have been ported to 0.10, > so we decided to remove the old packages. I decided to keep this > versioned name, becauase in the near future we'll have the same with > gstreamer 0.12, which will be parallel installable with 0.10 also. > > Thank you for nice explanation.
