Package: mozilla-plugin-vlc Version: 1.0.6-1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable
Disclaimer: I see that there's a new version for vlc in Sid now but this bug I'm reporting has been present for so long that it's much probable that it hasn't been fixed. mozilla-plugin-vlc uses the old, BROKEN, mozilla-mplayer (v. 3.5.5) plugin. The Mozilla MPlayer plugin that works is the one used by the package gecko- mediaplayer (v. 0.9.9.2-1). As an example, I love VLC media player, but I can't install it in a small system because I have to install gecko-mediaplayer which already brings MPlayer and GNOME-MPlayer in. I don't know why this is broken for so long, maybe because Windows users can use their Windows Media Player native plugin or Ubuntu users can use the Totem one so it matters only for people who don't use Windows or Gnome or don't have enough space to waste with two similar media players installed. I suspect this is an upstream bug, but I and many VLC lovers would appreciate very much if the Debian multimedia package maintainers could do something about it. Thank you for your attention. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.33-5.dmz.1-liquorix-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=pt_BR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=pt_BR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash _______________________________________________ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers
