Re: Bug#732159: Should this package be removed?
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz writes ("Re: Bug#732159: Should this package be removed?"):
> On 12/21/2013 02:11 PM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> > Because you sidestepped (read: hijacked) the original post.
>
> I did not. I was simply elaborating what the actual problem is. mplayer
> is broken and unmaintained and so is xbmc and the actual reason is not
> that those projects are unmaintained upstream but because Debian has
> decided to take sides with libav because one of the libav developers
> also happens to be a DD and these upstream projects still prefer
> ffmpeg over libav and so do other like the PPSSPP emulator, for
> example, which is extremely popular.
John: Supposing one were to agree with your assessment of the problem,
what do you think should be done ? Are there people volunteering to
do the necessary packaging work ?
Jonas: Is your view that the packages which aren't working properly
with libav (including mplayer) should be removed from Debian ?
Thanks,
Ian.
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