On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 12:16:59PM -0500, Reinhard Tartler wrote: > On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 11:21 AM, Moritz Mühlenhoff <j...@inutil.org> wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 05:07:36PM -0500, 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) > >> > >> 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: > > > > Shall we go ahead with the removal now? > > > > toonloop has been removed from testing half a year ago and the last > > maintainer upload was two years ago and photofilmstrip is already > > removed from jessie since half a year. popcon is marginal for both. > > > > We can ask FTP masters to remove mplayer forcefully despite the > > remaining reverse deps. > > In lack of any *constructive* comments about this, I would say yes, > let's remove them.
What would constitute a constructive comment? mplayer2 is unmaintained and as far as I can tell mpv has completely different command-line syntax at the least (though I am not well informed about either). Libav compatibility is not intentionally broken upstream, but it is not tested in any systematic way either (possibly not at all). Though I agree that there is little point in keeping the outdated rc4 version. But one more point: I am not sure all programs using mencoder will have it as a dependency correctly. For example flvtool (exists only in stable though it seems) should be using mencoder for some tasks but does not list it as a dependency. Now, deb-multimedia.org provides it anyway so it won't leave people completely stranded, but I wonder if maybe there was a way to somehow point people there when they try something like "apt-get install mencoder"? I can see why you might have some concerns with that, but it would seem like a kind of user-friendly solution to me that doesn't require much effort from anyone... _______________________________________________ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers
