infrastructure to export the codec installation,informations

Fabian Greffrath greffrath at leat.rub.de
Tue Aug 12 07:47:23 UTC 2008


Sebastian Dröge schrieb:
> This makes it possible to enable automatic codec installation from 3rd
> party repositories like Debian Multimedia for example.

Cool, great idea. But which software will be able to handle those 
additional information? Will packages that contain the missing codecs 
be installed automatically? Which is the infrastructure that will 
handle this?

> Apart from that dh_gstscancodecs will now generate a substitution
> variable that can be put into Provides and will contain stuff like
> gstreamer0.10-audiosink. Previously we added this by hand ;)

I looked at the source packages and did not find the additional 
information in debian/control. My fault... :)

Cheers,
Fabian

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