Bug#699864: mplayer2 from experimental doesn't work with smplayer

[Reinhard Tartler]

Hi,

I have tried to raise this issue to upstream:

On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 7:25 AM, Reinhard Tartler <siretart at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Uoti,
>
> What do you think about this issue? Is this something that, in your
> opinion, smplayer should fix, or can you restore compatibility in
> mplayer2 (which I would think would be nice).
>
> Are you in contact with the smplayer developers?

He contacted me on IRC with this:
15:55 <uau> siretart: smplayer2 is somewhat better than smplayer, and
doesn't have that "-fontconfig" option problem among other things
19:21 <siretart> uau: so I take it that you decline the request to
make changes in mplayer2 to unbreak smplayer?
19:39 <uau> siretart: i'm not sure exactly what changes would be
required


With this situation, I'm inclined to suggest to get smplayer replaced
in debian by smplayer2. Maia, would you agree with this approach? If
yes, then the next steps would be to orphan or straightly remove
smplayer from Debian, and package smplayer2 in a way that it replaces
the smplayer package. Another option would be to package smplayer2 as
"smplayer" source package. However, I'm not intimately familiar with
either of the two projects. From the first glance it seems that
similar to mplayer2, also the smplayer2 fork does not believe in
blessed releases and forces us to decide on snapshots.

I'm unsure what's the best way to proceed and am therefore seeking
opinions from other pkg-multimedia.

-- 
regards,
    Reinhard