Use libsoup 2.4 and remove the souphttpsrc patch

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes

  • Improved streaming reliability during seeking, flushing, and looping playback to reduce intermittent playback errors.
  • Fixed a race condition that could cause repeated requests to reuse stale state.

• Chores

  • Updated build and runtime dependencies to align with the newer compatible Soup 2.4 stack.

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📒 Files selected for processing (4)

• Dockerfile-prod-base.in
• docker/build-gstreamer/compile
• docker/build-gstreamer/install-dev-dependencies
• docker/build-gstreamer/patch/gstreamer/0004-souphttpsrc-fix-race-conditions-when-looping.patch

💤 Files with no reviewable changes (2)

• docker/build-gstreamer/compile
• docker/build-gstreamer/patch/gstreamer/0004-souphttpsrc-fix-race-conditions-when-looping.patch

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

This PR reverts the libsoup dependency from version 3.0 to 2.4 in the production base Dockerfile and GStreamer dev dependencies script, and removes the previously applied souphttpsrc race-condition patch and its application step from the GStreamer build script.

Changes

libsoup 2.4 downgrade

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Update libsoup package references Dockerfile-prod-base.in, docker/build-gstreamer/install-dev-dependencies	Replaces libsoup-3.0-0 with libsoup-2.4-1 and libsoup-3.0-dev with libsoup2.4-dev in the respective apt-get install lists.
Remove libsoup race-condition patch application docker/build-gstreamer/compile, docker/build-gstreamer/patch/gstreamer/0004-souphttpsrc-fix-race-conditions-when-looping.patch	Removes the git apply step for the souphttpsrc race-condition patch and deletes the patch file entirely.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title accurately summarizes the main changes: switching to libsoup 2.4 and removing the souphttpsrc patch.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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