Re: Bug#732159: Should this package be removed?

2013-12-21 Thread Reinhard Tartler
On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 6:55 PM, Mike Gabriel wrote: > @Reinhard: please note that we in X2Go currently work on a multimedia > implementation that requires mplayer on the client side. It would be a shame > (disclaimer: /me has not fully read all postings in this thread) if > mplayer(1) would disap

Re: Bug#732159: Should this package be removed?

2013-12-21 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 12/21/2013 11:47 AM, Reinhard Tartler wrote: > On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 6:55 PM, Mike Gabriel > wrote: >> @Reinhard: please note that we in X2Go currently work on a multimedia >> implementation that requires mplayer on the client side. It would be a shame >> (disclaimer: /me has not fully read a

Re: Bug#732622: snp-sites: ITP First time debian snp-sites package

2013-12-21 Thread Andrei POPESCU
Control: reassign -1 wnpp On Jo, 19 dec 13, 12:47:52, Jorge Soares wrote: > Package: snp-sites > Version: 1 > Severity: normal > > Dear Maintainer, > > I would like to regiater my intent to package the software snp-sites > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: 7.2 > APT prefers sta

Re: Bug#732159: Should this package be removed?

2013-12-21 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Hi John Paul, A week ago Reinhard started this thread, explicitly referencing mpv. You quoted that, sidestepping to your own pet issue: Quoting John Paul Adrian Glaubitz (2013-12-14 23:53:05) > On 12/14/2013 11:07 PM, Reinhard Tartler wrote: > >> - Alternatives exist (mplayer2, mpv) > > Well, t

Re: Bug#732159: Should this package be removed?

2013-12-21 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Jonas! On 12/21/2013 01:15 PM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > A week ago Reinhard started this thread, explicitly referencing mpv. > You quoted that, sidestepping to your own pet issue: > > Quoting John Paul Adrian Glaubitz (2013-12-14 23:53:05) >> On 12/14/2013 11:07 PM, Reinhard Tartler wrote:

Re: Bug#732159: Should this package be removed?

2013-12-21 Thread The Wanderer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 12/21/2013 07:36 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Hi Jonas! > > On 12/21/2013 01:15 PM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > >> A week ago Reinhard started this thread, explicitly referencing >> mpv. You quoted that, sidestepping to your own pet iss

Re: Bug#732159: Should this package be removed?

2013-12-21 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting John Paul Adrian Glaubitz (2013-12-21 13:36:12) > On 12/21/2013 01:15 PM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: >> A week ago Reinhard started this thread, explicitly referencing mpv. >> You quoted that, sidestepping to your own pet issue: [proof snipped - see earlier post for details] >> ...and now

Re: Bug#732159: Should this package be removed?

2013-12-21 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 12/21/2013 02:11 PM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Because you sidestepped (read: hijacked) the original post. I did not. I was simply elaborating what the actual problem is. mplayer is broken and unmaintained and so is xbmc and the actual reason is not that those projects are unmaintained upstream

Re: Bug#732159: Should this package be removed?

2013-12-21 Thread Ian Jackson
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz writes ("Re: Bug#732159: Should this package be removed?"): > On 12/21/2013 02:11 PM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > Because you sidestepped (read: hijacked) the original post. > > I did not. I was simply elaborating what the actual problem is. mplayer > is broken and unmai

Re: Bug#732159: Should this package be removed?

2013-12-21 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting John Paul Adrian Glaubitz (2013-12-21 14:56:38) > On 12/21/2013 02:11 PM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > Because you sidestepped (read: hijacked) the original post. > > I did not. I was simply elaborating what the actual problem is. Fine. Subject is this: Should [the mplayer] package be rem

Re: Bug#732159: Should this package be removed?

2013-12-21 Thread Moritz Mühlenhoff
Ian Jackson schrieb: > Jonas: Is your view that the packages which aren't working properly > with libav (including mplayer) should be removed from Debian ? mplayer doesn't need to be removed because of any compatibility issues with libav. It FTBFSes for entirely unrelated reasons since 9 months (

Re: Bug#732159: Should this package be removed?

2013-12-21 Thread The Wanderer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 12/21/2013 11:08 AM, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote: > Ian Jackson schrieb: > >> Jonas: Is your view that the packages which aren't working properly >> with libav (including mplayer) should be removed from Debian ? > > mplayer doesn't need to be remo

Re: Bug#732159: Should this package be removed?

2013-12-21 Thread Игорь Пашев
2013/12/21 John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : > mplayer2 is badly maintained as compared to mplayer, don't know > anything about mpv though. Just learned about it as of today, > in fact. mplayer2 looks more portable to me -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Bug#732159: Should this package be removed?

2013-12-21 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting The Wanderer (2013-12-21 18:30:54) > On 12/21/2013 11:08 AM, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote: > >> Ian Jackson schrieb: >> >>> Jonas: Is your view that the packages which aren't working properly >>> with libav (including mplayer) should be removed from Debian ? Thanks for snapping me out of meta

Bug#732810: ITP: libtap-simpleoutput-perl -- simple closure-driven TAP generator

2013-12-21 Thread gregor herrmann
Package: wnpp Owner: gregor herrmann Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libtap-simpleoutput-perl Version : 0.002 Upstream Author : Chris Weyl * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/TAP-SimpleOutput

Bug#732811: ITP: libtest-moose-more-perl -- collection of tools for testing Moose packages

2013-12-21 Thread gregor herrmann
Package: wnpp Owner: gregor herrmann Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libtest-moose-more-perl Version : 0.022 Upstream Author : Chris Weyl * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/Test-Moose-More *

Bug#732812: ITP: golang-rrd -- Go bindings for the rrdtool C library

2013-12-21 Thread Tonnerre LOMBARD
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Tonnerre LOMBARD * Package name: golang-rrd Version : 0.0~git20131112 Upstream Author : Michał Derkacz * URL : http://github.com/ziutek/rrd/ * License : BSD-3-Clause Programming Lang: Go Description : Go bindings

Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME

2013-12-21 Thread Vincent Lefevre
I'm replying to an old message, but... On 2013-10-23 23:06:39 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 10/23/2013 10:30 PM, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > > Of course I can install the package but don't have to switch init= to > > it, nevertheless it seems that already this alone adds sever

Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME

2013-12-21 Thread Russ Allbery
Vincent Lefevre writes: > I've spent several hours to find what was wrong with lightdm, and > eventually found the culprit earlier today: just the fact that the > systemd package was installed! So, yes, systemd currently breaks things, > even if it is not used (I don't use GNOME itself, sometimes

Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME

2013-12-21 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2013-12-21 18:04:19 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Vincent Lefevre writes: > > I've spent several hours to find what was wrong with lightdm, and > > eventually found the culprit earlier today: just the fact that the > > systemd package was installed! So, yes, systemd currently breaks things, > >

Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME

2013-12-21 Thread Russ Allbery
Vincent Lefevre writes: > On 2013-12-21 18:04:19 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: >> That said, the display managers in Debian other than kdm and gdm are not >> ready for systemd at the moment. I had to switch to gdm3 to use systemd >> (by which I mean booting with it) because neither slim nor lightdm