2013/3/31 Reinhard Tartler <siret...@gmail.com> > > Hi Ricardo, > > I think you already noticed, but please let me introduce myself just > in case, I'm Reinhard Tartler, one of the package maintainers of the > smplayer package in Debian. This package is group-maintained in the > team pkg-multimedia, which maintains hundreds of multimedia-related > packages, including libav, mplayer2, mplayer, vlc and many others. > > I noticed that the other smplayer maintainer is quite busy these days, > so I had a closer look at the package this weekend. I've uploaded > version 0.8.4 to debian/experimental, updated the themes package, and > tested it in a chroot with both mplayer2 and mplayer. While testing, I > was able to confirm bug http://bugs.debian.org/699864, which I found > pretty annoying. Therefore, I have modified the debian smplayer > package with this patch: > > http://patch-tracker.debian.org/patch/series/view/smplayer/0.8.4-1/01-add-mplayer2-detection.patch > > I'm not terribly found about this workaround (it do not dare to call > it "fix" or even "solution"), so if you have any better suggestions, > I'm happy to hear them!
I've just implemented something that may be better. Now you can run "smplayer -mplayer-info". That command will run mplayer, get the mplayer version (and detect if it's mplayer2 or not), save the info to the smplayer config and exit. I think you can run this command in the post-installation script of smplayer, this way smplayer will know what version of mplayer is installed. You can also run it in the post-installation scripts of mplayer and mplayer2 (if smplayer is installed), this way if the user switches from mplayer to mplayer2 (or vice versa) smplayer will know. I attach the patch for smplayer 0.8.4, so you can test it. > While preparing the package, I have also noticed that we not been able > to keep up with the incoming bugs in the smplayer package. I've spent > an hour to triage the existing ones, and it turns out that many of the > bugs are actually issues that exist in the smplayer code itself, and > therefore would require your attention. I expect that many of them are > already fixed in version 0.8.4, but I'm having a really hard time to > tell which of them are still present and which of them have been fixed > in what version. A list of (currently 11) pre-organized bugs that I > would like to ask you to have a look at, is here: > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?src=smplayer;include=tags%3Aupstream Ok, I'll take a look at those bugs and try to fix them. -- RVM
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