I suppose some people have probably noticed on slashdot that a new version of real player is out. I'm the maintainer of the realplayer installer package in the contrib distribution of Debian. Just to forstall a flood of email, I'm writing to let people know that this version will *not* be supported by the installer until Real makes it available in some format other than a self-extracting program that must be run as root under X and requires user interaction to install. That's stupid, and I'm just not gonna go there. Once a rpm or (god forbid!) a tarball is available, the realplayer installer in unstable will be updated to use it.
In the meantime, Debian folks who really need it can install it by hand. -- see shy jo
