Re: Bug#116359: ITP: apron -- An MPEG player running in a text-console
Wouter Verhelst <wouter@debian.org> writes:
> Usefullness of software is not a requirement for it to be packaged. A good
> example is tuxracer in the m68k-port; It doesn't run on my Pentium I
> at 166Mhz, let alone on a Motorola 68000 processor that runs at 50Mhz.
> Still, it's compiled since it's there, and maybe some user would like to
> have fun and install it.
Sorry, I can easily guess that the number of apron users will not exceed
one or two. This is the kind of usefullness I'm talking about. Tuxracer
is far away from this.
>
> > Moreover, there are some other video players that
> > can use aalib plugins to display video in a console.
> >
> > We really don't need that.
>
> If you don't need it, you're welcome to not install it on your
> personal system. I think it's really nice to have some software that can
> do this, and probably will use it.
It is one more package entering the archive. And when orphaned, noone
will accept to take it over, so it'll give more work to the QA team,
like those waiting for new maintainers in WNPP.
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Jérôme Marant <jerome@marant.org>
<jerome.marant@free.fr>
http://marant.org
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