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Bug 776215 - schroedinger: Remove plugin, no upstream
schroedinger: Remove plugin, no upstream
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: GStreamer
Classification: Platform
Component: gst-plugins-bad
git master
Other Linux
: Normal critical
: 1.13.90
Assigned To: GStreamer Maintainers
GStreamer Maintainers
: 722094 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2016-12-17 18:22 UTC by Sebastian Dröge (slomo)
Modified: 2018-03-01 15:32 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---

Attachments
schroedinger: Remove plugin, there is no upstream anymore (6.46 KB, patch)
2016-12-17 18:30 UTC, Sebastian Dröge (slomo) 		committed Details | Review

Description Sebastian Dröge (slomo) 2016-12-17 18:22:20 UTC 
I'd propose to remove this plugin, at least from cerbero. There is no upstream anymore (literally: the only places for download you can find are distro mirrors!), nobody works on it since ages and I'm sure it's full of security relevant bugs.

See also https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=845037 and the crash bugs here https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?repeatmerged=no&src=schroedinger .
Comment 1 Sebastian Dröge (slomo) 2016-12-17 18:25:45 UTC 
ffmpeg also has a decoder (but only for VC2 AFAIK), if anybody really needs it.
Comment 2 Sebastian Dröge (slomo) 2016-12-17 18:30:54 UTC 
Created attachment 342127 [details] [review]
schroedinger: Remove plugin, there is no upstream anymore
Comment 3 Edward Hervey 2018-01-15 10:34:32 UTC 
+1 for removing it
Comment 4 Tim-Philipp Müller 2018-01-25 19:23:03 UTC 
*** Bug 722094 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Tim-Philipp Müller 2018-01-25 19:24:29 UTC 
Shall we also purge it from -bad then or do we want to keep it around?
Comment 6 Sebastian Dröge (slomo) 2018-02-05 08:01:02 UTC 
Yes, remove it.
Comment 7 Tim-Philipp Müller 2018-03-01 15:32:05 UTC 
Done:

commit a0cc9d1af004376cbedd8dd230712c69cd203517
Author: Tim-Philipp Müller <tim@centricular.com>
Date:   Thu Mar 1 15:24:39 2018 +0000

    Remove schroedinger plugin
    
    No upstream (website disappeared), no maintainer, and
    pretty much a fringe format anyway.
    
    https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=776215