Hi, On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 06:42:36PM +0200, Thijs Vermeir wrote: > On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 06:31:05PM +0200, Jan de Groot wrote: > > On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 18:06 +0200, Thijs Vermeir wrote: > > > Hello all, > > > > > > I see that some GStreamer packages have been outdated, attached you > > > can find the PGKBUILD's with upgraded version and some other > > > modifications detailed below. > > > > > > (Coudn't find if this is already discused) > > > I also had a question about the gst-plugins-base/good/bad/ugly > > > packages. I see that they are now split-up in 2 packages > > > (ex: gstreamer0.10-base and gstreamer0.10-base-plugins). The second > > > one contains the plugins depending on external libraries and the first > > > one contains libraries and plugins without external dependencies. > > > > > > Typically a user has all gstreamer plugins installed, or at least he > > > is using some plugins from every package. So I propose that we also > > > merge these 2 plugins to make it easier to maintain and match > > > upstream packages. > > > > > > Does this sound logic or do I miss something? > > > > > > Changes to PKGBUILD: > > > gstreamer0-10: 0.10.24 > > > - disable tests and examples > > > gstreamer0.10-base and plugins: 0.10.24 > > > - only LGPL > > > - bump depends versions > > > gstreamer0.10-python: 0.10.16 > > > > First of all, I will change gstreamer to use the split package > > possibilities that pacman 3.3 gives us. > > Second, you can't relicense this to LGPL only, the cdparanoia plugin > > links to cdparanoia, which is GPL. This makes the plugin GPL also. > > Apparently the GStreamer community asked [1] to cdparanoia developers to > change the license to support LGPL, as this is the license used in > core/base/good. This is from release 10.1 and we are using 10.2, so I > think it is fine to say now that base is fully LGPL compatible now. > > [1] http://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2008/08/07/cdparanoia-now-lgpl-v2/ Are you making any progress with the GStreamer packages ? Don't want to put you under pressure :-) but there are some new upstream packages that depend on the newer upstream gstreamer versions (like pitivi). Or is it possible to have the unsplit updated packages like the ones I send, until the new split packages are ready? Thanks, Thijs
