On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 7:29 PM, Loïc Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 03, 2008, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > > because the content of > > -bad was split between good and ugly, we no longer have a safe way to > > figure out which package provides which codec. > > That's correct. It would be nice to have such a mapping; in fact we > have one, but not injecting package dependencies.
Updating the descriptions to at least start which gst0.10 components are included in each would help a lot. > > Even then, this reorganization forces maintainers of other packages to > > version THEIR dependencies, to either get what they need from bad << > > version, or good >= version or bad >= version. > > Not necessarily, no; we could as well have the new packages missing > functionality depending on the new packages providing them. That seems to be the case here: nothing provides support for mms:// URL anymore. -- Martin-Éric Racine http://q-funk.iki.fi
