the status of gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad
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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