[arch-general] GStreamer packages

[Thijs Vermeir]

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 I see that some GStreamer packages have been outdated, attached you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/