Bug#785198: transition: GStreamer 0.10 removal

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>]

Hi Sebastian,

On 13/05/15 13:09, Sebastian Dröge wrote:
> Package: release.debian.org
> Severity: normal
> User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
> Usertags: transition
> 
> Hi,
> 
> see rationale in this mailing list thread:
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2015/05/msg00335.html
> 
> It was suggested in that thread to also set up a transition tracker for
> this. The main package involved here would be libgstreamer0.10-0, which
> should go away and has libgstreamer1.0-0 as replacement already.
> 
> The qt-gstreamer transition (#760003) already clears part of the
> remaining GStreamer 0.10 dependencies. Additionally there are further
> GStreamer 0.10 bindings:
> 
> python-gst0.10 is replaced by python-gst1.0 / python3-gst1.0
> 
> libgstreamer0.9-cil is replaced by libgstreamer1.0-cil
>   (which is not yet uploaded, upstream release exists)
> 
> libgstreamermm-0.10-2 would be replaced by libgstreamermm-1.0-XXX
>   (which is also not yet uploaded, upstream release exists)
> 
> libgstreamer-perl, haskell-gstreamer
>   I'm not aware what the plans there are, the latter also has nothing
>   depending on it.

I don't want to have hundreds of RC bugs just for this. You can file bugs at say
important severity though, and when the list of rdeps gets down significantly,
they can be raised to serious. Also sending a dd-list to debian-devel can be useful.

Cheers,
Emilio