Subject: bug#76026: closed (Re: [bug#76026] [PATCH] gnu: cogl: Disable gstreamer plugin.)

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Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2025 14:06:02 +0000

Your bug report

#76026: [PATCH] gnu: cogl: Disable gstreamer plugin.

which was filed against the guix-patches package, has been closed.

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Subject: Re: [bug#76026] [PATCH] gnu: cogl: Disable gstreamer plugin.
From: 宋文武 <[email-masked]>
To: Maxim Cournoyer <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked], Vivien Kraus <[email-masked]>,宋文武 <[email-masked]>, Liliana Marie Prikler <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2025 22:09:26 +0800
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

Maxim Cournoyer <[email-masked]> writes:

> Awesome, you are fixing a 5 years old bug :-).  Nitpick, I'd used
>
> Fixes: <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/39126>

Done, thank you!

> [...]
> That looks good to me, but reading
> https://blogs.gnome.org/clutter/2022/02/16/retiring-clutter/, it seems
> we should instead be removing cogl from the distribution, or at least
> never propagating it, in which case the above flag would become
> unnecessary.

Yes, It's propagated and needed by clutter, which still required by 22
packages.  GNOME propagated it by cheese, where cheese.pc does requires
cluster.  So I think remove the cogl gst plugin is right thing to do
here.

Subject: [PATCH] gnu: cogl: Disable gstreamer plugin.
From: [email-masked]
To: [email-masked]
Cc: 宋文武 <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2025 14:32:52 +0800
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

From: 宋文武 <[email-masked]>

Fixes <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/39126>.

The cogl GStreamer sink has been broken:
  <https://gitlab.gnome.org/Archive/cogl/-/issues/15>

* gnu/packages/gnome.scm (cogl)[inputs]: Remove gstreamer and
gst-plugins-base.
[arguments]: Pass "--enable-cogl-gst=no" to configure-flags.

Change-Id: I644da53effb52c6b6d8b1f9b6df293545fab963c
---
 gnu/packages/gnome.scm | 4 +---
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/gnu/packages/gnome.scm b/gnu/packages/gnome.scm
index 1225570c3c..1e8d813682 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/gnome.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/gnome.scm
@@ -6308,12 +6308,10 @@ (define-public cogl
      (list mesa
            cairo
            pango
-           gstreamer
-           gst-plugins-base
            wayland))
     (arguments
      `(#:disallowed-references (,xorg-server-for-tests)
-       #:configure-flags (list "--enable-cogl-gst"
+       #:configure-flags (list "--enable-cogl-gst=no" ;broken and unmaintained
                                "--enable-wayland-egl-platform"
                                "--enable-wayland-egl-server"

base-commit: 12619742365b4bc138853ff7d79053e2089ffe1e
-- 
2.48.1