On Thu, 2009-06-04 at 16:43 +0200, Lukáš Jirkovský wrote: > Hello, > I've a question - why are gstreamer packages named gstreamer0.10 and > not gstreamer? I can see it also in Debian, but I don't see any sense > in appending version to the package name. > > Lukas "stativ"
This is because we used to have gstreamer (0.8) and gstreamer0.10 (0.10). Applications working with 0.8 don't work with 0.10, and the other way around. After a year or so most apps have been ported to 0.10, so we decided to remove the old packages. I decided to keep this versioned name, becauase in the near future we'll have the same with gstreamer 0.12, which will be parallel installable with 0.10 also.
