Bug#585959: No package for mplayer

[Harri Haataja]

Package: mplayer
Version: 2:1.0~rc3+svn20100502-3
Severity: normal

% sudo apt-get install mencoder
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Package mencoder is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
However the following packages replace it:
  mplayer
E: Package mencoder has no installation candidate

And no, mplayer package does not replace the most capable transcoder available.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fi_FI.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages mplayer depends on:
ii  libaa1                  1.4p5-38         ascii art library
ii  libasound2              1.0.23-1         shared library for ALSA applicatio
ii  libaudio2               1.9.2-3          Network Audio System - shared libr
ii  libavcodec52            4:0.5.2-1        ffmpeg codec library
ii  libavformat52           4:0.5.2-1        ffmpeg file format library
ii  libavutil49             4:0.5.2-1        ffmpeg utility library
ii  libc6                   2.11.1-3         Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libcaca0                0.99.beta17-1    colour ASCII art library
ii  libcdparanoia0          3.10.2+debian-9  audio extraction tool for sampling
ii  libdirectfb-1.2-9       1.2.10.0-3       direct frame buffer graphics - sha
ii  libdvdread4             4.1.3-9          library for reading DVDs
ii  libenca0                1.13-1           Extremely Naive Charset Analyser -
ii  libesd0                 0.2.41-7         Enlightened Sound Daemon - Shared 
ii  libfontconfig1          2.8.0-2.1        generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6            2.3.11-1         FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libfribidi0             0.19.2-1         Free Implementation of the Unicode
ii  libgcc1                 1:4.4.4-1        GCC support library
ii  libgif4                 4.1.6-9          library for GIF images (library)
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1 7.7.1-3          A free implementation of the OpenG
ii  libjack0                1.9.5~dfsg-13    JACK Audio Connection Kit (librari
ii  libjpeg62               6b-16.1          The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  liblircclient0          0.8.3-5          infra-red remote control support -
ii  liblzo2-2               2.03-2           data compression library
ii  libncurses5             5.7+20100313-2   shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libogg0                 1.2.0~dfsg-1     Ogg bitstream library
ii  libopenal1              1:1.12.854-2     Software implementation of the Ope
ii  libpng12-0              1.2.43-1         PNG library - runtime
ii  libpostproc51           4:0.5.2-1        ffmpeg video postprocessing librar
ii  libpulse0               0.9.21-1         PulseAudio client libraries
ii  libsdl1.2debian         1.2.14-6         Simple DirectMedia Layer
ii  libsmbclient            2:3.4.8~dfsg-1   shared library for communication w
ii  libspeex1               1.2~rc1-1        The Speex codec runtime library
ii  libstdc++6              4.4.4-1          The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libsvga1                1:1.4.3-29       console SVGA display libraries
ii  libswscale0             4:0.5.2-1        ffmpeg video scaling library
ii  libtheora0              1.1.1+dfsg.1-3   The Theora Video Compression Codec
ii  libx11-6                2:1.3.3-3        X11 client-side library
ii  libxext6                2:1.1.1-3        X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxinerama1            2:1.1-3          X11 Xinerama extension library
ii  libxt6                  1:1.0.7-1        X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii  libxv1                  2:1.0.5-1        X11 Video extension library
ii  libxvmc1                2:1.0.5-1        X11 Video extension library
ii  libxxf86dga1            2:1.1.1-2        X11 Direct Graphics Access extensi
ii  libxxf86vm1             1:1.1.0-2        X11 XFree86 video mode extension l
ii  zlib1g                  1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime

mplayer recommends no packages.

Versions of packages mplayer suggests:
ii  bzip2                         1.0.5-4    high-quality block-sorting file co
ii  fontconfig                    2.8.0-2.1  generic font configuration library
pn  mplayer-doc                   <none>     (no description available)
pn  netselect | fping             <none>     (no description available)
ii  ttf-freefont                  20090104-7 Freefont Serif, Sans and Mono True

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