Bug#576591: mplayer - gmplayer fails by default

Tue Apr 6 05:17:32 UTC 2010

On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 00:50:17 (CEST), Bastian Blank wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 12:08:46AM +0200, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
>> why do you consider this grave? It only affects gmplayer, which is
>> deprecated upstream.
>
> The package still depends on mplayer-skin, which is only used in
> gmplayer. So it is considered a central part in the Debian package.

I cannot follow this reasoning; this upstream maintenance status has
nothing to do with this dependency. Dropping gmplayer would allow us to
remove mplayer-skin from debian.

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Gruesse/greetings,
Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4