#1038239 please drop transitional package gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio from src:gst-plugins-good1.0

Package:
gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio
Source:
gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio
Description:
GStreamer plugin for PulseAudio (transitional package)
Submitter:
Holger Levsen
Date:
2026-04-29 09:21:01 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1038239#5
Date:
2023-06-16 17:58:08 UTC
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usertags: transitional

Please drop the transitional package gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio (from the source
package gst-plugins-good1.0) for trixie, as it has been released with bullseye
and bookworm already.


Description: GStreamer plugin for PulseAudio (transitional package)
Package: gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio
Version: 1.18.4-2+deb11u1
Version: 1.22.0-5
Version: 1.22.3-2

Thanks for maintaining gst-plugins-good1.0!
#1038239#10
Date:
2023-06-28 20:01:51 UTC
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There are still several packages that Depend and Build-Depend on
gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio .

Thank you,
Jeremy Bícha
#1038239#15
Date:
2023-06-28 20:20:07 UTC
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I'd suggest filing important bugs against those packages first, then wait
a month, then drop the transitional package & make those bugs serious.

for after the trixie release I plan to have "my" transitional bug reports to
at least include a list of rdeps to ease such bug filing...
#1038239#28
Date:
2026-04-29 09:19:44 UTC
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Still dependencies, 3 years down the road:

marc@jenek:~/Development/salsa/gst-plugins-good1.0$ aptitude search
'~Dgstreamer1.0-pulseaudio'
p   buzztrax                     - Modular music composer
p   goodvibes                  - lightweight internet radio player
p   kazam                        - screencast and screenshot
application created with design in mind
p   phonon4qt5-backend-gstreamer - Phonon Qt5 GStreamer 1.0 backend
p   pulseeffects               - Audio effects for PulseAudio applications