[Buildroot] [PATCH 09/14] gst-fsl-plugins: bump version to 4.0.3

[Arnout Vandecappelle]

On 10-09-15 14:17, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Gary,
> 
> On Wed,  9 Sep 2015 22:20:58 +0200, Gary Bisson wrote:
> 
>> Quick comment on this one, I might delete this package during next cycle
>> as it is not maintained any more and has been removed from Yocto:
>> https://github.com/Freescale/meta-fsl-arm/commit/83b240e
>>
>> Let me know your thoughts on this.
> 
> GStreamer 0.10.x is anyway no longer being developed, I'm not sure it's
> really being maintained anymore either. 

 It has never been maintained. They stopped making 0.10 releases as soon as 1.0
(actually 0.11) existed.


> We're keeping it in Buildroot
> for those people who are using platforms that don't have GStreamer 1.x
> plugins, or who have applications written with the GStreamer 0.10.x
> API.
> 
> We will have to decide at some point to mark GStreamer 0.10 as
> deprecated. Not sure when will be the right, I'm not a GStreamer user
> personally, so I don't know until when we should support 0.10.

 We can deprecate it as soon as all packages that depend on it disappear. Which
is probably never.


 Regards,
 Arnout


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