1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/meta/recipes-multimedia/gstreamer/gst-plugins-package.inc b/meta/recipes-multimedia/gstreamer/gst-plugins-package.inc
index 3e9ef92fdd..7ae3ef6b0c 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-multimedia/gstreamer/gst-plugins-package.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-multimedia/gstreamer/gst-plugins-package.inc
@@ -24,6 +24,13 @@ python populate_packages_prepend () {
     d.setVar('DESCRIPTION_' + metapkg, pn + ' meta package')
 }
 
+# metapkg has runtime dependency on PN
+# each plugin depends on PN, plugin-dev on PN-dev and plugin-staticdev on PN-staticdev
+# so we need them even when empty (like in gst-plugins-good case)
+ALLOW_EMPTY_${PN} = "1"
+ALLOW_EMPTY_${PN}-dev = "1"
+ALLOW_EMPTY_${PN}-staticdev = "1"
+
 PACKAGES += "${PN}-apps ${PN}-meta ${PN}-glib"
 FILES_${PN}-apps = "${bindir}"