Re: gstreamer 2.22, webkitgtk 2.40.0, qt 5.15.8 and ffmpeg 6 on staging

[Andreas Enge]

Hello,

Am Tue, Mar 28, 2023 at 11:10:01PM -0400 schrieb Maxim Cournoyer:
> I've updated the following dependencies in a group (to try to make
> things a bit more efficient) on the staging branch; the motivation
> originally stemmed from the latest Jami now requiring FFmpeg 6.

that sounds good if it means we will get rid of the branch for good soon :-)
Otherwise I think it would have been better to work on merging staging and
core-updates and then use a feature branch.

However I am a bit afraid of repercussions on core-updates (originally I
had planned to first merge back staging into master, but somehow we ended
up working on core-updates first...). I have no idea what is the ordering
between packages in master, staging and core-updates - it may well be
possible that some packages are newer in staging, others in core-updates.
Or that they are the same in both, but with different patches.
For instance, I also updated qt to 5.15.8 on core-updates, but differently,
using a global version variable for making sure to update everything at
once. I think this is preferable. In any case, merging this will be a bit
difficult to sort out without mixing bits from the two parts.
So it would be nice if you could carefully merge master into core-updates
after the staging merge.

A typo in the title confused me, but it is gstreamer@1.22.1 instead of
@2.22, which is hopefully less of a change ;-)

Concerning ffmpeg, we now have 5 different versions of it; @2, @3 and @5
have almost no dependents, @4 and @6 have many. It would be nice to sort
this out later and hopefully drop most of them.

Andreas