On 12/14/2013 11:07 PM, Reinhard Tartler wrote: > 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)
Well, to be honest, I think the problem is actually libav, not mplayer. Most users prefer the original ffmpeg over libav from my own experience. And there are new upstream releases of mplayer which are actually more frequent and active than mplayer2: - mplayer: current stable release 1.1.1, released May 6th, 2013 - mplayer2: current stable release 2.0, released: March 24th, 2011 Even the latest git commit for mplayer2 is older than the current stable release of mplayer. The latter seems much more active to me. So, what I'd rather like to see is that we get a proper ffmpeg back in Debian again which would also allow to update mplayer to the current upstream version. There is even an RFP for that [1]. But I guess this is not going to happen. I'm still a bit sad that the split among the ffmpeg people happened. Adrian > [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=729203 -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
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