Bug#728772: closed by Debian FTP Masters <ftpmaster at ftp-master.debian.org> (Bug#732159: Removed package(s) from unstable)

[Andreas Cadhalpun]

On 21.04.2014 12:42, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> Debian Bug Tracking System dixit:
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>> This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report
>> which was filed against the src:mplayer package:
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>> #728772: mplayer: FTBFS: The architecture of your CPU (UNKNOWN) is not supported
>>
>> It has been closed by Debian FTP Masters <ftpmaster at ftp-master.debian.org>.
> […]
>> as the package mplayer has just been removed from the Debian archive
> […]
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> You cannot s̲e̲r̲i̲o̲u̲s̲l̲y̲ remove mplayer from the archive?
> You must be kidding. MPlayer2 was born dead and VLC
> just doesn’t work most of the time and has a horrible UI.
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> Honestly, please bring mplayer+ffmpeg back!

We are already working on this, see the FFmpeg ITP [1].
I think Alexander Strasser managed to build a recent mplayer with these 
FFmpeg packages.

You're welcome to join the team and help getting FFmpeg uploaded to the 
archive. There is already a collab-maint repository [2].

Best regards,
Andreas


1: https://bugs.debian.org/729203
2: http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/ffmpeg.git;a=summary