Re: [PATCH 0/4] Add GStreamer 0.10 and things that depend on it from oe-core

[akuster808 <akuster808@gmail.com>]

On 05/22/2015 09:30 AM, Burton, Ross wrote:
> On 22 May 2015 at 17:11, akuster808 <akuster808@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I have noticed some breakages when building xfce, (libcanberra DEPENDS =
>> 'gstreamer') now needs to be "gstream1.0". I suspect some of it is do to
>> gstreamer transitioning. I will give a few days to settle before sending
>> patches.
>>
>
> libcanberra 0.29 only supports GStreamer 0.10, libcanberra 0.30 depends on
> 1.0.

ok, I will look into that.
>
> I suspect the problem you're hitting is that libcanberra 0.29 depends on
> gstreamer which isn't in oe-core anymore, but switching gstreamer to
> gstreamer1.0 whilst letting the build run will mean libcanberra doesn't
> actually support GStreamer...
>
> Either xfce should keep with GStreamer 0.10 and so depend on
> meta-multimedia, or xfce and related recipes migrate to GStreamer 1.x.

This is less of an xfce issue as meta-oe world wont build do to the 
above mentioned depends. Maybe we may want to move the failing packages 
to a more appropriate location, upgrade or fix the depends.

failing packages:
farsight2, pidgin, licnice, libcanberra  and qt-mobility

would creating a virtual/gstreamer help?

- armin
>
> Ross
>