Re: the status of gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2015-09-03 10:26:25 +0200, Fabian Greffrath wrote:
> Hi Vincent,
> 
> > which is unacceptable from a security and stability point of view.
> 
> do you conclude this from the package description?

and information from upstream. Thus I don't want to be forced to
use plug-ins I don't need.

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Re: the status of gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad

[Fabian Greffrath]

Hi Vincent,

> which is unacceptable from a security and stability point of view.

do you conclude this from the package description?

> One problem is that if this package is installed, then Iceweasel
> automatically uses these plugins (even when not needed, currently
> making it crash[*]), with apparently no way to disable them. IMHO,
> either there should be a way to disable them for some applications,
> or this package shouldn't be in dependencies.

I can confirm the crashes with the package in unstable. However, please
note that gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad is entangled into many simultaneous
transitions at the moment. I guess a simple rebuild in a clean
environment could already help to fix it (fwiw, the package in testing
is build from the same source version and does not crash).

If it helps, a new upstream snapshot has just arrived in experimental
and using this, the crashes disappeared.

 - Fabian


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the status of gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad

[Vincent Lefevre]

The gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad package description says:

[...]
 GStreamer Bad Plug-ins is a set of plug-ins that aren't up to par compared
 to the rest. They might be close to being good quality, but they're missing
 something - be it a good code review, some documentation, a set of tests, a
 real live maintainer, or some actual wide use.

which is unacceptable from a security and stability point of view.
One problem is that if this package is installed, then Iceweasel
automatically uses these plugins (even when not needed, currently
making it crash[*]), with apparently no way to disable them. IMHO,
either there should be a way to disable them for some applications,
or this package shouldn't be in dependencies.

Note: Disabling all gstreamer plugins (i.e. including those from the
good set) is not a solution.

[*] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=797227

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