gstreamer 0.10/1.0 policy

[Jan Rękorajski]

On Tue, 25 Sep 2012, Jakub Bogusz wrote:

> gstreamer 1.0 has been released.
> It's mostly (at least on libraries/plugins) level parallel-installable
> with 0.10.
> Every package targeted to gstreamer 0.10 would require some effort to switch
> to 1.0 (at least change pkg-config check, I'm now aware of API changes).
> 
> What to do now? I see a few possibilities:
> - keep gstreamer 0.10 using current names, package 1.0 as gstreamer1-*
>   (it's not what I'd like)
> - keep gstreamer 0.10 packages as gstreamer0.10-*, upgrade gstreamer-*
>   packages to 1.0 (old external gst 0.10 plugins not ported yet are to
>   be renamed to gstreamer0.10-*)

This is best choice, and it will allow us to easily drop old packages
later.

> - just upgrade gstreamer-* to 1.0, drop all plugins/packages requiring
>   gst 0.10 not ported yet
> 
> Has someone looked what the other distros do?

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