Bug#1005899: mplayer: should not release with bookworm

2022-12-29 Thread Sebastian Ramacher
On 2022-12-30 01:48:56 +0100, Lorenzo wrote: > Hi Sebastian, > > Could you please clarify if this package should be maintained inside the > Debian-Multimedia Team or outside? I.e. an uploader or a new maintainer? Whatever the new maintainer prefers. The multimedia team always is happy to welcome

Bug#1005899: mplayer: should not release with bookworm

2022-12-29 Thread Lorenzo
Hi Sebastian, Could you please clarify if this package should be maintained inside the Debian-Multimedia Team or outside? I.e. an uploader or a new maintainer? Regards, Lorenzo On Wed, 16 Feb 2022 23:25:00 +0100 Sebastian Ramacher wrote: > Source: mplayer > Version: 2:1.4+ds1-3 > Severity: seri

Bug#1005899: mplayer: should not release with bookworm

2022-10-21 Thread fabian
Am 21.10.2022 12:36, schrieb Tj: I require mencoder specifically to handle some old legacy format conversion where I found ffmpeg fails despite many attempts to work around the issues with various command-line options. Ever considered reporting these issues to the ffmpeg project? - Fabian

Bug#1005899: mplayer: should not release with bookworm

2022-10-21 Thread Tj
On Wed, 16 Mar 2022 20:09:59 +0100 Diederik de Haas wrote: On 16 Feb 2022 23:25:00 +0100 Sebastian Ramacher wrote: > Source: mplayer > Version: 2:1.4+ds1-3 > Severity: serious > Tags: sid bookworm > > I think we should not include mplayer in bookworm. > mpv is a worthy replacement for mplayer

Bug#1005899: mplayer: should not release with bookworm

2022-03-16 Thread Diederik de Haas
On 16 Feb 2022 23:25:00 +0100 Sebastian Ramacher wrote: > Source: mplayer > Version: 2:1.4+ds1-3 > Severity: serious > Tags: sid bookworm > > I think we should not include mplayer in bookworm. > mpv is a worthy replacement for mplayer. I do use mpv to play ~ all my video files, but I also wrote

Bug#1005899: mplayer: should not release with bookworm

2022-03-01 Thread Ian Jackson
Reimar Döffinger writes ("Re: Bug#1005899: mplayer: should not release with bookworm"): > > These are definitely fixed in 1.5, and the fix for giflib should be not hard > to cherry-pick for 1.4 if there is a need. > > > and #958865 (crash on theora) really ought

Bug#1005899: mplayer: should not release with bookworm

2022-02-28 Thread Reimar Döffinger
> On 28 Feb 2022, at 19:12, Ian Jackson wrote: > It seems to me that at #1004579 (ffmpeg 5.0) and #939032 (giflib) > would need to be addressed, These are definitely fixed in 1.5, and the fix for giflib should be not hard to cherry-pick for 1.4 if there is a need. > and #958865 (crash on theo

Bug#1005899: mplayer: should not release with bookworm

2022-02-28 Thread Sebastian Ramacher
On 2022-02-28 18:12:27, Ian Jackson wrote: > This bug came to my attention as a user of mplayer, due to the testing > autoremoval which is the consequence of an RC bug. > > I tried Sebastian Ramacher's suggested alternative of `mpv` and, > speaking entirely personally, it would do OK for me as a r

Bug#1005899: mplayer: should not release with bookworm

2022-02-28 Thread Ian Jackson
This bug came to my attention as a user of mplayer, due to the testing autoremoval which is the consequence of an RC bug. I tried Sebastian Ramacher's suggested alternative of `mpv` and, speaking entirely personally, it would do OK for me as a replacement for mplayer. It seems to have many of the

Bug#1005899: mplayer: should not release with bookworm

2022-02-27 Thread Reimar Döffinger
On Thu, Feb 17, 2022 at 08:45:59PM +0100, Sebastian Ramacher wrote: > On 2022-02-17 19:13:08 +0100, Reimar Döffinger wrote: > > > > > On 16 Feb 2022, at 23:25, Sebastian Ramacher wrote: > > > > > > Let's stop pretending that mplayer is maintained. > > > > What is your criteria for "maintained"?

Bug#1005899: mplayer: should not release with bookworm

2022-02-17 Thread Sebastian Ramacher
On 2022-02-17 19:13:08 +0100, Reimar Döffinger wrote: > > > On 16 Feb 2022, at 23:25, Sebastian Ramacher wrote: > > > > Let's stop pretending that mplayer is maintained. > > What is your criteria for "maintained"? In Debian or upstream? Upstream > issues are still addressed from time to time,

Bug#1005899: mplayer: should not release with bookworm

2022-02-17 Thread Reimar Döffinger
> On 16 Feb 2022, at 23:25, Sebastian Ramacher wrote: > > Let's stop pretending that mplayer is maintained. What is your criteria for "maintained"? In Debian or upstream? Upstream issues are still addressed from time to time, there are still several people around that can address issues, in

Bug#1005899: mplayer: should not release with bookworm

2022-02-16 Thread Sebastian Ramacher
Source: mplayer Version: 2:1.4+ds1-3 Severity: serious X-Debbugs-Cc: sramac...@debian.org Tags: sid bookworm Let's stop pretending that mplayer is maintained. The upstream mailing list infrastructure is gone and development has been minimal over the last couple of months and years. So I think we s