Hi, I have tried to raise this issue to upstream:
On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 7:25 AM, Reinhard Tartler <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Uoti, > > What do you think about this issue? Is this something that, in your > opinion, smplayer should fix, or can you restore compatibility in > mplayer2 (which I would think would be nice). > > Are you in contact with the smplayer developers? He contacted me on IRC with this: 15:55 <uau> siretart: smplayer2 is somewhat better than smplayer, and doesn't have that "-fontconfig" option problem among other things 19:21 <siretart> uau: so I take it that you decline the request to make changes in mplayer2 to unbreak smplayer? 19:39 <uau> siretart: i'm not sure exactly what changes would be required With this situation, I'm inclined to suggest to get smplayer replaced in debian by smplayer2. Maia, would you agree with this approach? If yes, then the next steps would be to orphan or straightly remove smplayer from Debian, and package smplayer2 in a way that it replaces the smplayer package. Another option would be to package smplayer2 as "smplayer" source package. However, I'm not intimately familiar with either of the two projects. From the first glance it seems that similar to mplayer2, also the smplayer2 fork does not believe in blessed releases and forces us to decide on snapshots. I'm unsure what's the best way to proceed and am therefore seeking opinions from other pkg-multimedia. -- regards, Reinhard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
