Please move gstreamer-flite to separate package - too big libflite1 dependancy (~20MB)

[Mantas Kriaučiūnas]

Please remove flite plugin from gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad binary package (change debian/control, debian/gstreamer-plugins-bad.install, etc) and create separate binary package gstreamer1.0-plugin-flite - currently gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad binary package depends on libflite1, which takes too much space on user filesystem (~20MB) and no software in Ubuntu uses gstreamer-flite (libgstflite.so).
If you think, that very important to have gstreamer-flite plugin (libgstflite.so) when user installs gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad binary package then simply add gstreamer1.0-plugin-flite to Recommends field of gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad binary package.

I've did a "dirty" hack 2 years ago - patched previous version (0.10) of gst-plugins-bad (removed flite from debian/control and other packaging files), see this patch:
https://launchpadlibrarian.net/80611550/gst-plugins-bad0.10_0.10.21-1ubuntu11_0.10.21-1ubuntu11~baltix0.diff.gz

Some other Linux and BSD distributions also have separate package for gstreamer flite plugin, see for example:
PLD Linux: http://ftp.cc.uoc.gr/mirrors/linux/pld/pool/g/gstreamer-flite/
FreeBSD: http://freshports.org/audio/gstreamer-plugins-flite/

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.