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Re: Debian 9 t: Update Gstreamer Base plugins package to resolve a Gstreamer bug

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Hi Henrique,
Thanks very much for detailing the steps involved in getting this patch
into a stable Debian 9 release. It looks like I have to do a bunch of
testing before I file a bug to get this change into a stable Debian 9
release or even a backport.


Regards,
Dinesh

On Sun, May 6, 2018 at 7:06 AM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
wrote:

> On Sat, 05 May 2018, Liam O'Toole wrote:
> > On 2018-05-05, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org> wrote:
> > > On Fri, 04 May 2018, Dinesh Iyer wrote:
> > >> "You'll have to talk to whoever is providing you your older version of
> > >> GStreamer. They will have to backport the fix to that old version,
> but it
> > >> should just cleanly apply to the older versions."
> > >>
> > >> The patch that needs to be applied is:
> > >> https://github.com/GStreamer/gst-plugins-base/commit/
> 9f9000e693694ea33c21607140ffc29aa1734062#diff-
> acf6f1abae3d918458c7a91ce8a0b3ad
> > >>
> > >> Is this something that would be possible to do? This would really
> help me
> > >> as this stall is a show stopper for my application.
> > >
> > > Talking in the general way, yes, it is possible.  I am not one of the
> > > DDs responsible for gstream, though.  So all I can tell you is how it
> > > would go for one of the packages I am responsible for:
> > >
> > > Since a stable update is needed, one has to go the long way to get the
> > > Debian stable release manager to approve it (it doesn't depend only on
> > > the DD responsible for the package).
> > >
> > > First, you get the fix into unstable (either through a patch, or by
> > > ensuring an already fixed version is present).  And wait for it to
> > > migrate to testing (usually, five-seven days).
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > At this point wouldn't it be easier to get the fix into
> > stretch-backports?
>
> Yes, backports is alwasy easier.  But it reaches a lot less people.
> Your choice, really.
>
> --
>   Henrique Holschuh
>
>

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Debian 9 t: Update Gstreamer Base plugins package to resolve a  Gstreamer bug Dinesh Iyer <dsi.maillist@gmail.com> - 2018-05-04 16:00 +0200
  Re: Debian 9 t: Update Gstreamer Base plugins package to resolve a  Gstreamer bug Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org> - 2018-05-05 15:50 +0200
    Re: Debian 9 t: Update Gstreamer Base plugins package to resolve a  Gstreamer bug Liam O'Toole <liam.p.otoole@gmail.com> - 2018-05-05 16:40 +0200
      Re: Debian 9 t: Update Gstreamer Base plugins package to resolve a  Gstreamer bug Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org> - 2018-05-06 13:10 +0200
        Re: Debian 9 t: Update Gstreamer Base plugins package to resolve a  Gstreamer bug Dinesh Iyer <dsi.maillist@gmail.com> - 2018-05-07 14:20 +0200

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