SMplayer Bugs in Debian

[Ricardo Villalba]

2013/3/31 Reinhard Tartler <siretart at gmail.com>
>
> 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!

I've just implemented something that may be better.

Now you can run "smplayer -mplayer-info". That command will run
mplayer, get the mplayer version (and detect if it's mplayer2 or not),
save the info to the smplayer config and exit.

I think you can run this command in the post-installation script of
smplayer, this way smplayer will know what version of mplayer is
installed. You can also run it in the post-installation scripts of
mplayer and mplayer2 (if smplayer is installed), this way if the user
switches from mplayer to mplayer2 (or vice versa) smplayer will know.

I attach the patch for smplayer 0.8.4, so you can test it.

> 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

Ok, I'll take a look at those bugs and try to fix them.

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