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Drop dependency on LGPL-3 libdw for better backtraces

Emanuele Aina requested to merge wip/em/licensing-drop-lgpl3-libdw-for-backtraces into apertis/v2022dev2

The libdw library is used to get better backtraces, but it is dual-licensed GPL-2 OR LGPL-3 which means that it either:

  • restricts all users of GStreamers to be GPL-2
  • requires users to be subject to the LGPL-3 provisions

Neither is acceptable for Apertis, so make sure that libgstreamer1.0-0 does not link to libdw1.

Task: T7887

Edited by Emanuele Aina

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