RPM, PackageKit-gstreamer-plugin and gstreamer-plugins-*

[Michel Salim]

PackageKit-gstreamer-plugin is now available in Fedora 9, but the
version of RPM in F-9 is still 4.4.2.3-3, meaning that the GStreamer
provides patch (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=438225) is
not applied yet.

This leads to an inconsistent interface: when playing a file for which
no GStreamer codec is installed using Totem or Banshee, the codec
service will get triggered, but users who have RPMfusion-nonfree
enabled would then be surprised to be told there is no match.

Since the plugin has already landed, we can't quite block it from
Fedora 9. Could F-9's RPM be patched, so that Gstreamer plugin
providers can then rebuild their RPMs to take advantage of the plugin?

Regards,

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