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

[Reinhard Tartler]

On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 1:35 AM, Chris Bannister
<cbannister at slingshot.co.nz> wrote:
> 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?

This would require a) co-instability and b) the same command-line
syntax. As demonstrated per this bug, neither is the case.

-- 
regards,
    Reinhard