[Python-modules-team] Bug#799725: Please remove alternate build deps for gstreamer 0.10

[Moritz Mühlenhoff]

On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 01:42:13PM -0700, Vincent Cheng wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 1:31 PM, Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm at debian.org> wrote:
> > Source: kivy
> > Severity: normal
> >
> > Hi,
> > kivy is using gstreamer 1.0, but still has alternate build-deps/deps
> > on gstreamer 0.10:
> >
> > libgstreamer0.10-dev
> > python-gst0.10
> >
> > Please remove these, gstreamer 0.10 is scheduled for removal from
> > the archive.
> 
> Is it not possible to keep these alternate build-deps in d/control to
> e.g. ease backporting?
>
> My understanding is that the dependency
> resolver that buildds use will only look at the first build-dep and
> disregard alternate build-deps.

Why do you need that? gstreamer1.0 is available even in wheezy-backports.

Cheers,
        Moritz