[gst-devel] one little annoying problem.

[Thomas Vander Stichele]

So there's one big problem I still have for the upcoming release.

When doing apt-get install gstreamer-universe, there are lots of gobject 
assert errors.  The reason for this is simple - when the gstreamer package 
gets upgraded, the old plug-ins are still on the system, and so every 
gst-register from other rpm upgrades fails until all the old plug-ins have 
been removed.

Personally, I think this is nasty.  IIUC, .so versioning is supposed to 
solve this ? I know we can't guarantee ABI stability yet, but I thought 
that versioning is the mechanism you use to help against that.

I'd appreciate some explanation so we can make a quick decision, because 
ideally I'd like to have this fixed for the release.

Thanks,
Thomas

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