1.12.4 → 1.14.0 on Debian

[Russel Winder]

On Sun, 2018-03-25 at 20:18 +0300, Sebastian Dröge wrote:
> 
> […]
> GL is in -base :) But the reason is that people will otherwise complain
> about all the dependencies these plugins (GTK, GL, Qt) are pulling in.
> 

So as far as Debian packaging is concerned the gtk plugin is not good, bad, or
ugly, it is in it's own category, gtk. This caused me confusion I'm afraid.

I'd suggest a minor rename:

gstreamer1.0-plugins-good
gstreamer1.0-plugins-good-gtk

etc. I believe the Fedora people do this sort of naming strategy as they
rigorously distinguish free and non-free because the non-free is in a totally
separate repository.

Naming in this sort of way makes it easier to move from "gtk plugin has moved
from bad to good" to loading the right OS package.

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