SMplayer Bugs in Debian

[Reinhard Tartler]

On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 2:13 AM, Ricardo Villalba <smplayer.dev at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've just realized that the post-installation runs as root, so this
> isn't going to work. So forget my patch. I'll try to find another
> solution.
>
> Have you considered to patch mplayer2 to not abort when using the
> -fontconfig option and instead display a warning about using a
> deprecated option?

That would be an option, but I have decided against that since
smplayer does seem to treat mplayer and mplayer2 differently, and I
expect both applications to diverge more and more.

>
> Anyway you have to notice that as development goes on, mplayer2 and
> mplayer will be more and more different between them, so in my opinion
> it's a mistake to pretend that mplayer2 is the same as mplayer. They
> are not compatible anymore. Now it's the -fontconfig option in the
> future it will be another thing. I don't want to include complicated
> code in smplayer to try to recognize if the mplayer executable is
> mplayer or mplayer2, specially when I think that the best solution is
> extremely simple and obvious, mplayer and mplayer2 are two different
> applications, each have to have its own name.

This request is tracked in debian as
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=623737, and upstream
at http://devel.mplayer2.org/ticket/11.

Uoti, any progress on that front? Is there anything that would help
you with making progress here?


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regards,
    Reinhard