Re: gstreamer-plugins-base revival

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On Wednesday, 25 September 2019 at 10:45, Kalev Lember wrote:
> 
> On 9/24/19 14:50, Michael Catanzaro wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 9:04 am, Tom Callaway <tcallawa@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > or know of some reason it shouldn't be brought back
> > 
> > Well this looks like gstreamer 0.10. I'm really surprised we still
> > have this in the distro. It's been obsolete for the better part of a
> > decade and is probably filled with security bugs. I remember
> > openSUSE got rid of its 0.10 packages 5+ years ago.
> > 
> > Why not let it die? Whatever is using it surely needs to go.
> 
> I second to that. I think it's time to let gstreamer 0.10 get removed
> from the distro.

Unfortunately, some (current) proprietary software like VMware Horizon
Client still depends on it [1]. I did mention this on their user forums
[2], but it might take a while for them to migrate to gstreamer1.

[1] https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Horizon-Client-for-Linux/5.2/horizon-client-linux-installation/GUID-5CFDC05A-2A93-40D9-B618-52399ADF346E.html
[2] https://communities.vmware.com/message/2889190

Regards,
Dominik
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