Bug#794817: Should mplayer2 be removed from unstable?

[Reinhard Tartler]

On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 9:21 PM Sebastian Ramacher <sramacher at debian.org>
wrote:

> On 2015-08-06 23:05:58, Andreas Cadhalpun wrote:
> > Package: mplayer2
> > Severity: serious
> >
> > I think mplayer2 should be removed because:
> >  * It is dead upstream (even the homepage is gone).
> >  * mplayer is back in Debian, which can replace mplayer2.
>
> … and one copy of mplayer is surely enough. Alessio, Jonas, Reinhard: What
> is
> your opinion on that?
>
>
I don't think we have the resources (mostly manpower) to maintain mplayer2
without an active upstream. I'm therefore OK with removing it from
unstable. If the maintenance situation changes, we can always reconsider.

Reinhard
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