On Mon, 20 Apr 2009 15:02:58 +0200 Reinhard Tartler <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Maia Kozheva <[email protected]> writes: > > > - It does no harm in Debian as it is, except for debcheck warnings. > > - mplayer-nogui is available in Ubuntu, and I would rather keep the > > same package in Debian and Ubuntu. > > - mplayer-nogui is available in debian-multimedia.org, which many > > Debian users install mplayer from for extra patent-restricted > > codecs. > > - There is a bug report (#523842) in Debian itself to add an > > mplayer-nogui package, confirmed by one of the maintainers, so I > > presume an mplayer-nogui package may appear in Debian soon. > > I think we really should replace the mplayer package from multiverse > with the package currently in debian/main. > Since we are on the subject, I'd rather have an mplayer package without gui (gmplayer is buggy/obsolete and unmaintained, mplayer upstream are actually recommending it to not be distributed) and, if really necessary, have an mplayer-gui (or gmplayer) package with the gui alone. With the excellent stand-alone gui's we have today (smplayer, kmplayer, gnome-mplayer) this is what makes the most sense. Cesare -- Ubuntu-motu mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-motu
