Hello David, besides my bug, I see several, trivial bugs for xmovie now. #221366 and #321187 are recompiles for C++-transition, #246217 is a simple "rename, please"-bug, which you could either do or tag wontfix, #213282 is a necessary migration, which you should state the status of (maybe a recompile does the job?), #139980 is again a stylistic issue (simple to implement or tag wontfix if you do not agree), #321188 should be fixed by a rebuild, #321190 dito. #193228 might be a bit harder (as you already state, IMHO the only bug I see comments from you), #321192 requires a little packaging grunt work, but is trivial otherwise (just a little tedious), and will probably necessary once xorg stabilizes.
If you are no longer maintaining xmovie, please state so by orphaning
it. Otherwise a new upload would be urgently in order, at least for
the simple bugs (i.e., most of them).
A while ago I tried building then current (upstream) xmovie on alpha,
but failed. Looking at the (then) shipped sources, lots of work on
distangeling the shipped versions of various libraries and adding
proper dependencies would be needed, so I concur that this might be a
major undertaking. But simply ignoring the package does not help our
users as well. Please remeber, our users are our target!"
Since I can play the one movie which on alpha only xmovie played here
on amd64 fine with other players, I do not have the motivation anymore
to improve xmovie (if you wanted that, you should have asked earlier).
Looking forward for you plans on xmovie,
Helge
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