[oe] [PATCH 29/31] xfce4-mixer: Remove, gstreamer-0.10 is obsolete

[Mark Hatle]

On 9/6/17 3:35 PM, Andreas Müller wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 10:21 PM, Mark Hatle <mark.hatle at windriver.com> wrote:
>>
>> You are missing the point.  We DO need a replacement.  However, I was unable to
>> find one.  With the few references I found when searching that there was no
>> replacement, and it was effectively obsolete (and removed in other
>> distributions), I followed their example.
>>
>> As I said in the header, I don't believe this set is completely right.  But it's
>> a first stab and what it took for me to pass the testing script.
>>
>> I am retesting with this patch and the removal of gstreamer removed from the
>> test set (it will take a while, I've got -30,000- tasks to run through for a
>> test).  It's possible that something else in the system was triggering a fault
>> that caused gstreamer-0.10 to fail and that was resolved elsewhere.
>>
>> I tested the original work against master, but rebased to master-next after
>> talking w/ Martin... I then spot checked the modified recipes that they were
>> still working after the rebase.
>>
>>> And please don't even think about running your magic script for
>>> meta-qt5-extra or send patches.
>>
>> Again, you are missing the point here.  Someone has to start this work.  It's
>> the layer maintainers decision to accept or reject the patches, not mine..  but
>> I feel it's my obligation as a community member to submit the patches I create
>> to the community layers that I use.  I also feel it's my obligation as a patch
>> submitter to explain why (or why not) they are necessary for my specific
>> use-case.  (In this case, passing a specific compatibility test script.)
>>
>> --Mark
>>
>>> Over and out
>>>
>>> Andreas
>>>
>>
> I am sure that I miss the point again but fedora - for me
> reference/inspiration many times - has no problem with xfce4-mixer
> [1].
> 
> [1] http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/xfce4-mixer.git/tree/xfce4-mixer.spec

arch - https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=222294
debian - https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=785846
mageia - https://forums.mageia.org/en/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=10018
Fedora - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1355763

etc...  This is what I based the original commit message on.

Just an FYI, the first part of my test WITHOUT the xfce4-mixer and
gstreamer-0.10 removal just passed.  I will let it continue and will report on
the status once the full test is complete.  (full test as in bitbake world)

--Mark

> Andreas
>