Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev-announce

From: Mart Raudsepp <leio@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev-announce@l.g.o, gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: gstreamer@g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev-announce] Use slot deps for all gstreamer package dependencies (including plugins); preparation for gstreamer-1.0
Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2012 18:09:47
Message-Id: 1347025965.1178.16.camel@phoenix
1 Hello,
2
3 The release of a new major GStreamer 1.0 release is going to happen
4 soon. It will be parallel-installable with the 0.10 series, so it will
5 be eventually introduced as a separate SLOT and co-exist for a while.
6
7 As such, if you maintain any packages that have any dependencies on
8
9 media-libs/gstreamer
10 media-libs/gst-plugins-*
11 media-plugins/gst-plugins-*
12
13 please get ready for it by pinning the dependencies to the appropriate
14 SLOT, which should currently be 0.10 in all cases.
15 Use SLOT deps if at all possible with your used EAPI, or at least a
16 =media-plugins/gst-plugins-foo-0.10* kind of dependency.
17
18 This way I'll have less package maintainers to chase around and bugs to
19 file once it's actually time to introduce the new SLOTs to the tree
20 (having all currently packages properly slot depend on 0.10 is
21 considered a blocker for 1.0 introducing).
22
23 media-libs/gst-plugins-bad used to be SLOT=0 accidentally, but this has
24 been slotmoved now, so SLOT 0.10 dep there as well.
25
26
27 Thanks,
28 Mart Raudsepp