On Sun, May 02, 2010 at 13:13:15 (CEST), Sven Joachim wrote: > Shouldn't such an important change as dropping the gui be at least > announced in NEWS.Debian to give the chance to bail out from the > upgrade? This was not a pleasant experience for me. :-(
This is more or less a compromise to bypass the NEW queue. In the next upload, we intend to add an new binary package 'mplayer-gui' that contains it. I can write some lines for NEWS.Debian. In any case, here is the current plan: ,----[proposed NEWS.Debian wording | The graphical version of mplayer (mplayer-gui, installed as | /usr/bin/gmplayer) has been moved to the 'mplayer-gui' package. It is | not installed by default, interested users need to install it manually. | | On upgrades from earlier releases of debian, /usr/bin/gmplayer may be | removed from the system. Users can get it back by manually installing | the 'mplayer-gui' package. | | Please note that mplayer-gui is deprecated and effectively | unmaintained. Moreover, it is known to contain obvious bugs, some of | which are pretty hard to fix. Both its upstream developers and the | Debian maintainers strongly advice against installing this package. | As a replacement, have a look at the smplayer package instead. `---- Might also be worth mentioning in the release notes. comments on the proposed wording are welcome! -- Gruesse/greetings, Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4 _______________________________________________ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers
