remove xbmc from Debian testing/unstable?

[Bálint Réczey]

Hi James,

2016-10-26 12:48 GMT+02:00 James Cowgill <jcowgill at debian.org>:
> On 26/10/16 11:00, Bálint Réczey wrote:
>> Hi Paul,
>>
>> 2016-09-21 4:28 GMT+02:00 Paul Wise <pabs at debian.org>:
>>> On Tue, 2016-09-20 at 18:14 +0200, Bálint Réczey wrote:
>>>
>>>> I have changed kodi 17.x to provide xbmc*.
>>>> The next upload to experimental will contain the fix.
>>>
>>> Excellent, thanks for that!
>>
>> It seems it is too much hassle to maintain the xbmc packages
>> generated from kodi source, see #842141.
>>
>> I could append the current version to the xbmc package versions,
>> but that would just confuse users.
>
> This is normal for transitional packages.
>
>> If you have any good idea please share it, otherwise I'm revert to
>> provide the transitional packages from xbmc.
>
> This is what I'm about to upload to do the mplayer2 -> mpv transition:
> https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-multimedia/mpv.git/commit/?id=1ef5c58015019a414bd89c98b1de215c3fcbcca5
>
> That allows me to not epoch the whole of mpv.

Thanks, let's try this then.

Cheers,
Balint