Bug#469130: gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly: needs to Provides in addition to Conflicts with gst-plugins-bad

[Martin-Éric Racine]

On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 7:29 PM, Loïc Minier <lool at dooz.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 03, 2008, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
>  >                                             because the content of
>  > -bad was split between good and ugly, we no longer have a safe way to
>  > figure out which package provides which codec.
>
>   That's correct.  It would be nice to have such a mapping; in fact we
>   have one, but not injecting package dependencies.

Updating the descriptions to at least start which gst0.10 components
are included in each would help a lot.

>  > Even then, this reorganization forces maintainers of other packages to
>  > version THEIR dependencies, to either get what they need from bad <<
>  > version, or good >= version or bad >= version.
>
>   Not necessarily, no; we could as well have the new packages missing
>   functionality depending on the new packages providing them.

That seems to be the case here:  nothing provides support for mms://
URL anymore.

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