Making 3rd party gstreamer codecs work in F22

[Andreas Tunek]

2015-04-25 18:43 GMT+02:00 Kalev Lember <kalevlember at gmail.com>:
> Hi,
>
> It turns out that some of the 3rd party repos that ship additional
> gstreamer codecs have been lagging behind and aren't ready for F22. At
> this point it's unclear if they'll manage to put out any recompiled F22
> packages in time of our GA release.
>
> The main issue that users run into with installing the 3rd party codecs
> is that we've bumped various sonames on the Fedora side; otherwise they
> could easily use the F21 packages from the 3rd parties.
>
> I think this is something we can try and make work on the Fedora side by
> providing enough ABI compatibility with F21. I spent some time today on
> this and came up with two compat packages:
>
> compat-libcdio15: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1215341
> compat-libcdio-paranoia1: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1215342
>
> Would be awfully nice if someone could help review these. The new compat
> packages are shipping the exact same code that was in F21, so it should
> be fine to skip a full license audit etc, and just do a fast track review.
>
> Once the 3rd parties have managed to get their F22 builds done, we can
> retire / obsolete the compat packages.
>
> Thanks,
> Kalev
> --

I of course do not want to tell anyone what to spend their time on,
but do you not think that this effort would be better spent helping
the 3rd party repos (rpmfusion) getting ready for F22 than building
compatibility layers?

Also, there are bugs for gstreamer/totem (like
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1186028), wouldn't your
packages possibly introduce more problems like that?

/Andreas

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