FS#43394 - [pidgin] missing dependencies for sound support

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Dario (dario86) - Saturday, 10 January 2015, 05:27 GMT
Last edited by Evangelos Foutras (foutrelis) - Saturday, 03 October 2015, 23:10 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Evangelos Foutras (foutrelis)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
Pidgin needs gstreamer0.10-base-plugins and gstreamer0.10-good-plugins for out of the box sound support. They should at least be considered optional. To quickly reproduce the issue go to Tools -> Preferences -> Sound and click the button Preview. It will not play anything unless the missing packages are installed.
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Closed by  Evangelos Foutras (foutrelis)
Saturday, 03 October 2015, 23:10 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  pidgin 2.10.11-4
Comment by Doug Newgard (Scimmia) - Saturday, 10 January 2015, 14:23 GMT
This appears to be intentional: https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/commit/trunk?h=packages/pidgin&id=120009c1a3837d6db781b9e880b343ee6f8f20b0
Comment by Dario (dario86) - Sunday, 11 January 2015, 02:00 GMT
I see. It is intentional. It would not be a bad idea to include the missing packages as optional dependencies though. Feel free to decide and close the bug report accordingly.
Comment by Matthias Dienstbier (fs4000) - Sunday, 11 January 2015, 15:48 GMT
Voice and video support was re-enabled afterwards again: https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/commit/trunk?h=packages/pidgin&id=871b523f753855cfc178d43476444c9c4279da27
Comment by Doug Newgard (Scimmia) - Sunday, 11 January 2015, 16:07 GMT
I see it. Pidgin requires libpurple, which requires farstream-0.1, which requires gstreamer0.10-bad-plugins, gstreamer0.10-base, gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg, and gstreamer0.10-good-plugins. So maybe farstream really needs base-plugins?
Comment by Dario (dario86) - Sunday, 11 January 2015, 21:57 GMT
I haven't tested voice and video communication so far. GStreamer is required for sound notification.

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