Bug#732159: Should this package be removed?

[Moritz Muehlenhoff]

retitle 732159 RM: mplayer - RoM - unmaintained, RC-buggy, alternatives exist
reassign 732159 ftp.debian.org
thanks

On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 12:16:59PM -0500, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> >> > 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!

Doing so.

FTP masters; there are two reverse depends on mencoder: toonloop
and photofilmstrip. Both are already dropped from testing for a long
time. I think we should go ahead and drop mplayer despite the rdeps, 
if the maintainers fix their packages they can re-enter jessie, otherwise
they'll also have to get removed at some point.

Cheers,
        Moritz