Bug#732159: Should this package be removed?

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz]

On 12/14/2013 11:07 PM, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 4:28 PM, Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm at debian.org> wrote:
>> Package: mplayer
>> Severity: serious
>>
>> Should this package be removed? If so, please reassign to ftp.debian.org
>>
>> - Last upload nearly two years ago
>> - FTBFS for a long time
>> - Incompatible with current libav
>> - Alternatives exist (mplayer2, mpv)

Well, to be honest, I think the problem is actually libav, not mplayer.
Most users prefer the original ffmpeg over libav from my own experience.

And there are new upstream releases of mplayer which are actually more
frequent and active than mplayer2:

- mplayer: current stable release 1.1.1, released May 6th, 2013
- mplayer2: current stable release 2.0, released: March 24th, 2011

Even the latest git commit for mplayer2 is older than the current
stable release of mplayer. The latter seems much more active to me.

So, what I'd rather like to see is that we get a proper ffmpeg
back in Debian again which would also allow to update mplayer
to the current upstream version. There is even an RFP for
that [1]. But I guess this is not going to happen.

I'm still a bit sad that the split among the ffmpeg people
happened.

Adrian

> [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=729203

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