SMplayer Bugs in Debian

[Reinhard Tartler]

Hi Ricardo,

I think you already noticed, but please let me introduce myself just
in case, I'm Reinhard Tartler, one of the package maintainers of the
smplayer package in Debian. This package is group-maintained in the
team pkg-multimedia, which maintains hundreds of multimedia-related
packages, including libav, mplayer2, mplayer, vlc and many others.

I noticed that the other smplayer maintainer is quite busy these days,
so I had a closer look at the package this weekend. I've uploaded
version 0.8.4 to debian/experimental, updated the themes package, and
tested it in a chroot with both mplayer2 and mplayer. While testing, I
was able to confirm bug http://bugs.debian.org/699864, which I found
pretty annoying. Therefore, I have modified the debian smplayer
package with this patch:

http://patch-tracker.debian.org/patch/series/view/smplayer/0.8.4-1/01-add-mplayer2-detection.patch

I'm not terribly found about this workaround (it do not dare to call
it "fix" or even "solution"), so if you have any better suggestions,
I'm happy to hear them!

While preparing the package, I have also noticed that we not been able
to keep up with the incoming bugs in the smplayer package. I've spent
an hour to triage the existing ones, and it turns out that many of the
bugs are actually issues that exist in the smplayer code itself, and
therefore would require your attention. I expect that many of them are
already fixed in version 0.8.4, but I'm having a really hard time to
tell which of them are still present and which of them have been fixed
in what version. A list of (currently 11) pre-organized bugs that I
would like to ask you to have a look at, is here:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?src=smplayer;include=tags%3Aupstream

I guess the "correct" protocol would be to file them one-by-one in the
sourceforge bug tracker. We can do that, if you insist, but since the
Debian bugtracker does not require any authentication and is
reasonably spam-free, I think a more lightweight approach would be if
you could comment on them by emailing $bugno at bugs.debian.org with
short details what is about them. Please note that if you want the
original submitter to read your reply, you either need to CC her or
him explicitly, or CC $bugno-submitter at bugs.debian.org additionally.
Please also feel free to close those bugs by mailing
$bugno-done at bugs.debian.org if the bug is invalid or has been fixed in
a released version of smplayer. Please do not hesitate to ask further
questions you might have about the Debian bugtracker!

Thanks a lot for your work on smplayer, I really appreciate this
program. I'm looking forward to working with you on improving the
user-experience of the smplayer package in Debian!

Cheers,
Reinhard