Bug#746641: totem: Fails to play youtube videos

[Bastien Nocera]

On Mon, 2014-05-19 at 13:19 +0200, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 19/05/14 12:06, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > On Fri, 2014-05-02 at 10:46 +0200, Marcus Lundblad wrote:
> >> Package: totem
> >> Version: 3.12.0-2
> >> Severity: normal
> >>
> >> Tried to search for videos on Youtube.
> >> When trying to play a video, you get a dialog about a missing HTML decoder.
> >> On the terminal the following is printed:
> >> ** Message: Missing plugin: gstreamer|1.0|totem|text/html decoder|decoder-text/html (text/html decoder)
> >> ** Message: Automatic missing codec installation not supported (helper script missing)
> >>
> >> I guess there is some gstreamer plugin missing.
> > 
> > No, whoever built totem-pl-parser built it without libquvi support:
> > https://packages.debian.org/sid/amd64/libtotem-plparser18/filelist
> 
> Looking at the debian changelog, I see:
> 
>     - Drop libquvi-dev (new quvi has incompatible license)
> 
> and libquvi has:
> 
> libquvi (0.9.3-1) experimental; urgency=low
> 
>   * New upstream release.
>   * libquvi is now licensed under AGPL-3+.
> 
> Linking against the new libquvi would effectively make libtotem-plparser GPL or
> AGPL, wouldn't it? IANAL and I could be wrong, but that's my understanding.

Whoever made that change took exactly 2 seconds to actually look at the
way that the libquvi usage is implemented. It's not incompatible.

The commit just before should have been a bloody good hint:
  [ Michael Biebl ]
  * Remove libquvi-dev dependency from libtotem-plparser-dev, the library no
    longer links against libquvi.

> Since 0.9 is only in experimental and unstable still has 0.4.x, we could keep
> linking against that, but we need to make sure we have something sane by the freeze.