Bug#732159: Should this package be removed?

[Reinhard Tartler]

On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 11:21 AM, Moritz Mühlenhoff <jmm at inutil.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 05:07:36PM -0500, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
>> On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 4:28 PM, Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm at debian.org> wrote:
>> > Package: mplayer
>> > Severity: serious
>> >
>> > Should this package be removed? If so, please reassign to ftp.debian.org
>> >
>> > - Last upload nearly two years ago
>> > - FTBFS for a long time
>> > - Incompatible with current libav
>> > - Alternatives exist (mplayer2, mpv)
>>
>> I tend to agree, however please keep in mind that this also removes
>> mencoder, for which no drop-in alternatives exist atm: Currently, two
>> packages depend on mencoder, toonloop and photofilmstrip:
>
> Shall we go ahead with the removal now?
>
> toonloop has been removed from testing half a year ago and the last
> maintainer upload was two years ago and photofilmstrip is already
> removed from jessie since half a year. popcon is marginal for both.
>
> We can ask FTP masters to remove mplayer forcefully despite the
> remaining reverse deps.

In lack of any *constructive* comments about this, I would say yes,
let's remove them.

Thanks for your work on this bug!

-- 
regards,
    Reinhard