return of the mpalyer package?!

[Miguel A. Colón Vélez]

On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 6:34 AM, Fabian Greffrath <fabian at debian.org> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> has anyone seen this yet?
>
> https://ftp-master.debian.org/new/mplayer_2:1.1.1+r37401-1.html
>
> Does anyone know what is going on, has anyone been informed, has anyone
> been contacted by the package maintainer or sponsor (CC:ed)?
>
> I mean, even if this package was removed from unstable and was not in
> jessie, it is still a pkg-multimedia package, or not? So this tastes
> like package hijack to me. Please clarify.


Hello:

I saw the ITP on 2014-12-01 and contacted the person on IRC the same
day (~2 weeks after the ITP).

micove> hello ... I'm from the debian multimedia team .... I was about
to commit some changes to the git repo but I noticed that you had
filed a ITP
<micove> would you like to join the team?
<frozencemetery> hi, nice to meet you.  Sure; I'd love to cooperate
with you all!  This is my first debian package, so apologies if I'm a
little slow on thing

He joined the #debian-multimedia channel since that day. My
understanding was that he was going to formally join the team and help
maintain the package under the team umbrella. I had not heard from him
since that day so I assumed he was no longer interested in packaging
MPlayer.

I was in contact with Reinhard and he had reviewed (not sure if he has
seen the last 10 commits)
http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-multimedia/mplayer.git/log/?h=master.experimental

and seemed pleased with the packaging. I already finished all my
changes as of 20 hours ago and since the transitional FFmpeg hit
experimental a few hours ago it compiles with the new FFmpeg package
names. Reinhard may have more information about the status of the
package in the team.

Cheers,
Miguel