Bug#580168: mplayer: Please don't provide mencoder manpage.

[Philipp Weis]

Package: mplayer
Version: 2:1.0~rc3+svn20100502-1
Severity: normal

With the latest update, the mplayer package now installes a manpage
for mencoder by symlinking it to the mplayer manpage. I think that's a
bit confusing, since the mencoder command itself is not provided by
the package, and it makes it harder to install a third-party mencoder
package. Please remove these symlinks, unless the mencoder command is
included as well.

Thanks,

Philipp


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (600, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.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  libartsc0        1.5.9-3+b1              aRts sound system C support librar
ii  libasound2       1.0.22-2                shared library for ALSA applicatio
ii  libaudio2        1.9.2-3                 Network Audio System - shared libr
ii  libavcodec52     4:0.5.1-3               ffmpeg codec library
ii  libavformat52    4:0.5.1-3               ffmpeg file format library
ii  libavutil49      4:0.5.1-3               ffmpeg utility library
ii  libc6            2.10.2-7                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- 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  libgcc1          1:4.4.4-1               GCC support library
ii  libgif4          4.1.6-9                 library for GIF images (library)
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx  7.7.1-1                 A free implementation of the OpenG
ii  libjack0         1.9.5~dfsg-4            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       1:1.11.753-1            Software implementation of the Ope
ii  libpng12-0       1.2.43-1                PNG library - runtime
ii  libpostproc51    5:0.5.1+svn20100427-0.0 postproc shared libraries
ii  libpulse0        0.9.21-1.2+b1           PulseAudio client libraries
ii  libsdl1.2debian  1.2.14-6                Simple DirectMedia Layer
ii  libsmbclient     2:3.4.7~dfsg-2          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      4:0.5.1-3               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)
pn  ttf-freefont                  <none>     (no description available)

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