Bug#588240: crashes with latest mplayer from sid

[Fabian Greffrath]

Hi Norbert,

Am 03.08.2010 18:10, schrieb Norbert Preining:
> Because he provides libs without some functionality *not* torn out
> due to licensing reasons. So if he did NOT replace sys libs, the whole
> game would be useless, no improvement for users.
> (improvement: suddenly some things work that didn't work before, like
> strange video formats etc)

the problem is that Marillat provides packages that carry the same 
package names as their counterparts in Debian but are 
binary-incompatible. Everything works fine as long as you use *only* 
his packages or *only* Debian's packages, but as soon as you mix up 
packages from both repositories you may experience faulty behaviour or 
crashes in e.g. vlc or mplayer.

We know this and Marillat knows this. We offered collaboration, we 
asked him to change his package names, we asked him to update his 
(unstripped) packages only when we update our stripped ones, he 
overrode our package versioning by epoch bumping and so on. We really 
tried, but our efforts were fruitless and still lead to bug reports 
like this one.

On the other hand, we (esp. Reinhard) are investing a lot of time into 
Debian's ffmpeg and mplayer packages and we are not going to adapt 
ourselves with Marillats arbitrary package releases.

  - Fabian