Debian Wheezy and Ubuntu Precise support in 1.0

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Issue migrated from trac ticket # 1275

component: platforms | priority: major | resolution: fixed | keywords: deb wheezy precise

2016-08-03 06:58:43: antoine created the issue

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Thanks to the private ffmpeg libraries (#1256), we can support some really old Debian distros with only minor fixes:

• r13185 (cms) + r13184 (Image) + r13188 (jpeg bug): support for the really old PIL version
• r13183: opencv compatibility
• r13186: ssl fix (native ssl support #1252)
• r13187: re-add deb packaging dependencies

It is usable, and better than being stuck with the 0.14.x branch.

Remaining issues:

• pyopengl version is too old.. (restore compatibility for v3.0.x?)
• sound crashes, similar to sound issues with CentOS 7.1.1503 - gstreamer1 #1267
• default installs may not have pulseaudio running: so sound sink option #1274 would help
• warning g_boxed_type_register_static: assertion g_type_from_name (name) == 0' failed` - nothing we can do about this, also happens on centos, this is due to a bug in this version of pygobject
• ideally, add python-lz4 to precise

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2016-08-03 07:09:59: antoine changed status from new to assigned

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2016-08-03 07:09:59: antoine edited the issue description

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2016-08-03 07:28:51: antoine edited the issue description

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2016-08-03 11:54:20: antoine commented

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The sound crashes are fixed in r13194 (incomplete for centos, see #1267).
r13196 re-adds gstreamer 0.10 as dependency for wheezy and precise.
Build fixes: r13234 + r13235, relax opengl compat: r13232 + r13233 + r13236, rpath fix: r13238.

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2016-08-06 08:18:24: antoine uploaded file autoaudiosink-err.txt (31.2 KiB)

sound error with wheezy client

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2016-08-06 08:24:46: antoine changed status from assigned to new

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2016-08-06 08:24:46: antoine changed owner from antoine to smo

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2016-08-06 08:24:46: antoine commented

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Despite a fix (r13244 / #1274) to not try to use pulseaudio if it isn't running, sound still doesn't work on wheezy: [/attachment/ticket/1275/autoaudiosink-err.txt].
The pipeline goes from NULL to READY to PAUSED and then the sound subprocess exits. And I don't have time to chase this.

Status: all versions from Debian Wheezy / Ubuntu Precise onwards should work, have opengl enabled (bar greylist / blacklist), without too many warnings.

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2016-12-26 09:28:55: antoine changed status from new to closed

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2016-12-26 09:28:55: antoine set resolution to fixed

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2016-12-26 09:28:55: antoine commented

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The version has been pushed out and I haven't seen any complaints about this yet, so closing.