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

[Chris Bannister]

On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 02:37:30PM +0100, Ricardo Villalba wrote:
> But I would suggest to allow the user to have both mplayer and
> mplayer2 installed at the same time. Currently if you install mplayer2
> it replaces mplayer and vice versa. Both applications are similar but
> they are not the same. mplayer2 has interesting new things, like
> support for ordered chapters, but it also has its own issues and some
> videos play better in mplayer. For me it's a problem not being able to
> have both applications installed at the same time.
> 
> Besides there's now another mplayer fork, called mpv
> (https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/blob/master/README.rst), if it's
> added some day to debian, will you also name the executable "mplayer"?
> I wouldn't find very logic to have 3 different applications with the
> same executable name. For me it would be very difficult to support the
> 3 applications if they all have the same name.

Shouldn't they be under the alternates system?

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