Bug#894387: gst-plugins-bad1.0: Corebird can't playvideos anymore

[Philip Rinn]

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On 29.03.2018 at 19:42, Sebastian Dröge wrote:
> On Thu, 2018-03-29 at 19:24 +0200, Philip Rinn wrote:
>> 
>>> So we'll have to get that solved somehow
>> 
>> Is there another solution than adding a dependency on gstreamer1.0- gtk3 in
>> corebird? (Besides adding it to gstreamer1.0-plugins-good which you
>> obviously don't want).
> 
> GStreamer has a mechanism to tell you about missing plugins and ask the user
> to install it. On Debian this is handled via 
> /etc/alternatives/gstreamer-codec-install , which usually then points to
> packagekit and would ask the user to install the gstreamer1.0-gtk3 package
> then.
> 
> But as corebird apparently does not use that API in the current version,
> that's also not a very useful solution.

I'll ask upstream to implement it, seems useful.

> I don't see a solution that a) requires no changes to corebird, b) doesn't
> let gstreamer1.0-plugins-good (or -bad) pull in GTK as a dependency and
> defeat the purpose of splitting it off into its own package.

I just uploaded a version of corebird which depends on gstreamer1.0-gtk3.

> We should really just somehow get the new package into testing fast, which is
> currently blocked on mesa.

Yes, that would be helpful.

Best,

Philip

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Bug#894387: gst-plugins-bad1.0: Corebird can't playvideos anymore

[Sebastian Dröge]

On Thu, 2018-03-29 at 19:24 +0200, Philip Rinn wrote:
> 
> > So we'll have to get that solved somehow
> 
> Is there another solution than adding a dependency on gstreamer1.0-
> gtk3 in corebird? (Besides adding it to gstreamer1.0-plugins-good
> which you obviously don't want).

GStreamer has a mechanism to tell you about missing plugins and ask the
user to install it. On Debian this is handled via
/etc/alternatives/gstreamer-codec-install , which usually then points
to packagekit and would ask the user to install the gstreamer1.0-gtk3
package then.

But as corebird apparently does not use that API in the current
version, that's also not a very useful solution.


I don't see a solution that a) requires no changes to corebird, b)
doesn't let gstreamer1.0-plugins-good (or -bad) pull in GTK as a
dependency and defeat the purpose of splitting it off into its own
package.

We should really just somehow get the new package into testing fast,
which is currently blocked on mesa.

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Bug#894387: gst-plugins-bad1.0: Corebird can't playvideos anymore

[Philip Rinn]

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On Thu, 29 Mar 2018 19:24:52 +0200 Philip Rinn  wrote:
> It would have been nice to contact depending maintainers and provide an
> upgrade path. You didn't even mention the package split it in d/changelog.

Oh, found it hidden in the d/changelog entry of gst-plugins-good1.0 (1.13.1-1)

Philip
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Bug#894387: gst-plugins-bad1.0: Corebird can't playvideos anymore

[Philip Rinn]

On 29.03.2018 at 18:43, Sebastian Dröge write:
> You need to depend on gstreamer1.0-gtk now, which provides the GTK
> plugin. It was moved to its own package because people complained that
> gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad pulls in too many dependency (and it would be
> in gstreamer1.0-plugins-good otherwise now anyway with 1.14).

Installing gstreamer1.0-gtk3 indeed fixes the problem.

It would have been nice to contact depending maintainers and provide an upgrade
path. You didn't even mention the package split it in d/changelog.

> Unfortunately, that package is not in testing yet because of a bug in
> mesa, which seems blocked by bureaucracy now.
> See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=894076

I don't see how gstreamer1.0-gtk3 entering testing would solve the situation. It
wouldn't get installed automatically so corebird would be broken even if it
entered testing today.

> So we'll have to get that solved somehow

Is there another solution than adding a dependency on gstreamer1.0-gtk3 in
corebird? (Besides adding it to gstreamer1.0-plugins-good which you obviously
don't want).

Best,

Philip



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Bug#894387: gst-plugins-bad1.0: Corebird can't playvideos anymore

[Sebastian Dröge]

reassign 894387 gst-plugins-good1.0
thanks

On Thu, 2018-03-29 at 18:28 +0200, Philip Rinn wrote:
> Source: gst-plugins-bad1.0
> Version: 1.14.0-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> Hi,
> 
> since gst-plugins-bad1.0 1.14.0-1 entered testing today corebird
> can't play videos anymore.
> 
> The error is:
> 
> "Could not create gtksink. Need gst-plugins-bad >= 1.6"

You need to depend on gstreamer1.0-gtk now, which provides the GTK
plugin. It was moved to its own package because people complained that
gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad pulls in too many dependency (and it would be
in gstreamer1.0-plugins-good otherwise now anyway with 1.14).

Unfortunately, that package is not in testing yet because of a bug in
mesa, which seems blocked by bureaucracy now.
See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=894076

So we'll have to get that solved somehow

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Bug#894387: gst-plugins-bad1.0: Corebird can't playvideos anymore

[Philip Rinn]

Source: gst-plugins-bad1.0
Version: 1.14.0-1
Severity: normal

Hi,

since gst-plugins-bad1.0 1.14.0-1 entered testing today corebird can't play
videos anymore.

The error is:

"Could not create gtksink. Need gst-plugins-bad >= 1.6"

I got a similar bug report in Ubuntu but it was "magically" fixed:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/corebird/+bug/1754131

The only thing I found that might help is:

https://github.com/gabesoft/nixpkgs/commit/7900a0142d447c4745f8f0af2384cce086d80e02

Just ask if I can help with debugging.

Best,

Philip



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