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From: "»Q«" <boxcars@×××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Difficulty fixing GLSA 201512-07 (gstreamer-0.10)
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2016 12:37:07
Message-Id: 20160105063606.46d1072c@sepulchrave.remarqs
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Difficulty fixing GLSA 201512-07 (gstreamer-0.10) by waltdnes@waltdnes.org
1 On Mon, 4 Jan 2016 14:09:17 -0500
2 waltdnes@××××××××.org wrote:
3
4 > On Mon, Jan 04, 2016 at 11:20:57AM -0600, »Q« wrote
5 >
6 > > AFAICT, details of the gstreamer bug itself haven't been made public
7 > > yet, and nobody is sure whether the unmaintained 0.10 branch needs a
8 > > patch. See <https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=553742#c11> and
9 > > the following comment.
10 >
11 > As pointed out in comment 12 of that bug, 1.x broke the 0.10.x
12 > ABI/API and causes problems on Firefox. I use Pale Moon, a Firefox
13 > fork, and it too will only build with gstreamer 0.10.x.
14
15 I couldn't follow everything in the bug linked from c12; I've been
16 using Firefox latest with gstreamer-1.0 for a while without problems,
17 but maybe that's because I don't use libav.
18
19 This probably won't affect Pale Moon at all, but Mozilla has gotten rid
20 of gstreamer support in Firefox (not yet in released versions):
21 <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1234092>

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