** Description changed: + [ Impact ] + + * Users expect to find the nvcodec plugin available in the -bad set, + which is used for all sorts of filtering and acceleration tasks + leveraging NVIDIA GPUs. + + * Due to a recent packaging bug, which intended to disable this plugin + for ARM platforms, but accidentally enabled it *only* for ARM platforms, + excluding all others, resulting in the original bug report. + + * Debian have reverted this exclusion logic entirely, since the + original issues requiring it not be built for ARM platforms have been + resolved. + + * This SRU simply cherry-picks the revert of this packaging change, + fixing the bug. + + [ Test Plan ] + + * To reproduce the bug, from a plucky installation, + + $ sudo apt install gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad + $ gst-inspect-1.0 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gstreamer-1.0/libgstnvcodec.so + No such element or plugin '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gstreamer-1.0/libgstnvcodec.so' + + * With the new package, the gst-inspect-1.0 command should provide + details about the plugin. + + [ Where problems could occur ] + + * There really isn't any risk to this change, it's simply reintroducing + a missing shared library. + + [ Other Info ] + + * The merge proposal for questing is available at + - https://salsa.debian.org/gstreamer-team/gst-plugins-bad1.0/-/merge_requests/19 + + * The merge proposal for plucky is available at + - https://salsa.debian.org/gstreamer-team/gst-plugins-bad1.0/-/merge_requests/20 + + [ Original Bug Report ] + I noticed that on plucky the nvcodec plugin (libgstnvcodec.so) is missing. https://packages.ubuntu.com/plucky/amd64/gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad/filelist (missing) https://packages.ubuntu.com/jammy/amd64/gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad/filelist (there) Upon further inspection I could not find anything in the Changelog that mentioned any changes to nvcodec. I then noticed that it IS present in the plucky arm64 build: https://packages.ubuntu.com/plucky/arm64/gstreamer1.0-plugins- bad/filelist (there) So I am guessing something went wrong during the build and this went unnoticed? - gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad/plucky,now 1.26.0-1ubuntu2 amd64 [installed]
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