Bug#657576: brasero fails to find the plugin with package DVD subpicture decoder

[shirish शिरीष]

Package: brasero
Version: 3.2.0-3
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,
             I was trying to create a Video DVD. When I gave the .vob
files brasero asked for the 'DVD subpicture decoder plugin' and said
it could not find any package. Thinking perhaps it might be due to the
fact that its being used as a user and not superuser might have
something to do with it. Then tried it using sudo (sudo as superuser
powers)

$ sudo brasero
[sudo] password for shirish:
Error in function update
TypeError: update() takes exactly 2 arguments (1 given)
Error in function update
TypeError: update() takes exactly 2 arguments (1 given)
Error in function update
TypeError: update() takes exactly 2 arguments (1 given)
Error in function update
TypeError: update() takes exactly 2 arguments (1 given)
Error in function update
TypeError: update() takes exactly 2 arguments (1 given)
Error in function update
TypeError: update() takes exactly 2 arguments (1 given)
Error in function update
TypeError: update() takes exactly 2 arguments (1 given)
Error in function update
TypeError: update() takes exactly 2 arguments (1 given)

As can be seen I got the same message, first asking for the plugin and
then failing to find it. Looking at the CLI saw the error statements
multiple times as above.

Did a bit of googling and found out that it is supposed to be part of
gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad set. Searched and saw that
gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad is installed. Clueless as to what to do
next.

$ dpkg -l gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                    Version                 Description
+++-=======================-=======================-==============================================================
ii  gstreamer0.10-plugins-b 0.10.22-3               GStreamer plugins
from the "bad" set

$ dpkg -l gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                    Version                 Description
+++-=======================-=======================-==============================================================
ii  gstreamer0.10-plugins-b 0.10.22-3               GStreamer plugins
from the "bad" set
08:42:38 shirish at deb-home: ~$ apt-show-versions -a  gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad
gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad 0.10.22-3 install ok installed
gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad 0.10.19-2+b2 stable       ftp.au.debian.org
gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad 0.10.22-3    testing      ftp.au.debian.org
gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad 0.10.22-3    unstable     ftp.au.debian.org
gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad 0.10.22.2-2  experimental ftp.au.debian.org
gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad/testing uptodate 0.10.22-3

Looking forward to help.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'),
(1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_IN, LC_CTYPE=en_IN (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages brasero depends on:
ii  brasero-common                   3.2.0-3
ii  gnome-icon-theme                 3.2.1.2-1
ii  gstreamer0.10-plugins-base       0.10.35-1
ii  gvfs                             1.10.1-2
ii  libatk1.0-0                      2.2.0-2
ii  libbrasero-media3-1              3.2.0-3
ii  libc6                            2.13-24
ii  libcairo-gobject2                1.10.2-6.2
ii  libcairo2                        1.10.2-6.2
ii  libfontconfig1                   2.8.0-3.1
ii  libfreetype6                     2.4.8-1
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0               2.24.0-2
ii  libglib2.0-0                     2.30.2-6
ii  libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0  0.10.35-1
ii  libgstreamer0.10-0               0.10.35-1
ii  libgtk-3-0                       3.2.3-1
ii  libice6                          2:1.0.7-2
ii  libnautilus-extension1a          3.2.1-2+b1
ii  libpango1.0-0                    1.29.4-2
ii  libsm6                           2:1.2.0-2
ii  libtotem-plparser17              2.32.6-2
ii  libtracker-sparql-0.12-0         0.12.9-1+b1
ii  libxml2                          2.7.8.dfsg-7

brasero recommends no packages.

Versions of packages brasero suggests:
ii  libdvdcss2  1.2.11-0.0
ii  vcdimager   0.7.23-5

-- no debconf information

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          Regards,
          Shirish Agarwal  शिरीष अग्रवाल
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