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[Paul Larson <paul.larson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It should be easily reproducible by running the unity8 autopilot tests.
On Sep 24, 2014 1:16 PM, "Jim Hodapp" <jim.hodapp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Oliver,
>
> So it's not so much that anything really needs porting to GStreamer 1.4,
> as I had been testing general media playback (audio, video) with it for a
> while, but something about it causes the Unity8 AP tests to crash. I don't
> believe that the fix would be a big effort code-wise, but it might take a
> bit of time to identify what the exact offending code is. Has anybody been
> able to reproduce this locally and not only on the Jenkins server?
>
> Jim
>
> On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 1:37 PM, Oliver Grawert <ogra@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> hi,
>> Am Mittwoch, den 24.09.2014, 11:44 -0500 schrieb Alberto Aguirre:
>> > Is there a bug number for the dbus-cpp issue?
>>
>> yes, this is bug 1371454
>>
>> > Is there a specific smoketest that was failing due to dbus-cpp?
>>
>> unity8's AP test is clearly hanging hard (killing the lab devices), we
>> see a lot more errors that only show in utopic which may or may not be
>> related ...
>>
>>
>> in the offending landing we have thee packages involved: dbus-dpp.
>> qtubuntu-media and media-hub ...
>>
>> * as you will see in the bug, reverting gstreamer to the 1.2 release
>> seems to fix the issue ...
>>
>> * in utopic there are already other fixes landed on top of the offending
>> media-hub version, which makes rolling back the change there pretty
>> hard.
>>
>> * to my knowledge debian is not planning to support gstreamer 1.2 in the
>> long term, so if we would actually go the easiest path and turn all of
>> gstreamer in rtm back to 1.2 we would lose our upstream and i doubt the
>> security team would like to support an unsupported gstreamer version.
>>
>> we will need a wider discussion that involves the ubuntu gstreamer
>> package maintainer and the security team to make a proper decision
>> here ...
>> the other alternative would be to simply port everything to gst. 1.4 but
>> i have no idea what code changes that involves, if you have any bright
>> idea, please drop it in :)
>>
>> ciao
>>         oli
>>
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