[Sugar-devel] Fwd: Call to retire gstreamer-0.10

[Peter Robinson]

On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 10:45 PM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have never been able to figure out how to get samples from GS1.0 the way I
> get them from GS0.1 so I never updated measure. Any tips most welcome.
>
> I did have a GS1.0 version of Record kicking around at one point but it
> didn't take advantage of some OLPC XO features so it was never accepted. I
> can try to resurrect that code.

Well we're in a situation where we're likely better to move them with
slightly less functionality and actually ship them than have them be
dropped altogether. It would be useful to document though what the
missing functionality is. I suspect some of it might just come out of
the box with some of the newer gst 1 functionality though.

Peter

> -walter
>
> On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 5:32 PM, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> FYI. We'll likely need these converted over in the F-26 cycle or drop
>> them. I think the hardest to migrate would be record.
>>
>> sugar-clock
>> sugar-memorize
>> sugar-record
>> sugar-speak
>>
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Michael Cronenworth <mike at cchtml.com>
>> Date: Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 4:06 PM
>> Subject: Call to retire gstreamer-0.10
>> To: Development discussions related to Fedora
>> <devel at lists.fedoraproject.org>
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> As I'm sure everyone is well aware gstreamer-0.10 is obsolete and has
>> been replaced by gstreamer-1.0. An upstream release for gst-0.10 has
>> not been made in over 4 years. Last month there were a handful of
>> security vulnerabilities disclosed[1] and upstream no longer maintains
>> the 0.10 series. While we could patch and update our Fedora packages
>> this is a perfect opportunity to retire it.
>>
>> Here is an approximate list of packages depending on gst-0.10. They
>> themselves should be considered obsolete or retirement material as
>> their upstreams may not have adopted gst-1.0. If the package doesn't
>> have a gst-1.0 equivalent there may be some cases where we could patch
>> in support for gst-1.0. Are there any non-Fedora software that would
>> prevent retirement from being possible?
>>
>> anchorman
>> banshee-community-extensions
>> bigloo-libs
>> clutter-gst
>> compat-wxGTK3-gtk2-media
>> drawtk
>> evas-generic-loaders
>> flumotion
>> gcompris
>> gloobus-preview
>> gnome-mud
>> gnomebaker
>> gstreamer-devel
>> gstreamer-ffmpeg
>> gstreamer-plugins-bad
>> gstreamer-plugins-bad-free
>> gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-extras
>> gstreamer-plugins-base
>> gstreamer-plugins-base-tools
>> gstreamer-plugins-good
>> gstreamer-plugins-good-extras
>> gstreamer-plugins-ugly
>> gstreamer-python
>> gstreamer-rtsp
>> gstreamer-rtsp-python
>> gstreamermm
>> gstreamermm-devel
>> ignuit
>> iptux
>> libgnome-media-profiles
>> libnice-gstreamer
>> lordsawar
>> media-explorer
>> moodbar
>> oggconvert
>> perl-GStreamer
>> perl-GStreamer-Interfaces
>> player
>> pocketsphinx-plugin
>> presence
>> psimedia
>> qt-mobility-multimediakit
>> sap
>> subtitleeditor
>> vagalume
>> winswitch
>> wxGTK-media
>> wxGTK3-media
>> xfce4-mixer
>> xfce4-volumed
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Michael
>>
>> [1]
>> https://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2016/11/0day-exploit-advancing-exploitation.html
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