I've added debian-devel for further input, as I believe the consequences are a bit wider than expected.
On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 4:28 PM, Moritz Muehlenhoff <j...@debian.org> wrote: > Package: mplayer > Severity: serious > > Should this package be removed? If so, please reassign to ftp.debian.org > > - Last upload nearly two years ago > - FTBFS for a long time > - Incompatible with current libav > - Alternatives exist (mplayer2, mpv) I tend to agree, however please keep in mind that this also removes mencoder, for which no drop-in alternatives exist atm: Currently, two packages depend on mencoder, toonloop and photofilmstrip: Alexandre Quessy <alexan...@quessy.net> toonloop (U) Debian Multimedia Maintainers <pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org> toonloop Gürkan Sengün <gur...@phys.ethz.ch> photofilmstrip Jens Göpfert <j...@sg-dev.de> photofilmstrip (U) Jonas Smedegaard <d...@jones.dk> toonloop (U) Philipp Huebner <debala...@debian.org> photofilmstrip (U) If there is general consent that those packages are OK to remove as well, then so be it. Best regards, Reinhard _______________________________________________ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers
