Re: Those disabled goodies in mplayer

[John Hasler <jhasler@debian.org>]

Brice Méalier writes:
> Personally I am fine with it and I trust his decisions. At least it works
> like that and does it well.

When did you last upgrade it?  Do you run Unstable?  When I try to install
Mplayer I get this:

  toncho/~ 5 sudo apt-get install mplayer-586
  Reading Package Lists... Done
  Building Dependency Tree... Done
  Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
  requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
  distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
  or been moved out of Incoming.

  Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
  the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
  that package should be filed.
  The following information may help to resolve the situation:

  The following packages have unmet dependencies:
    mplayer-586: Depends: libbio2jack0 but it is not going to be installed
                 Depends: libjack0.80.0-0 (>= 0.99.0) but it is not installable
                 Depends: slang1 (> 1.4.9dbs-4) but 1.4.5-1 is to be installed
  E: Broken packages


Leading to this:


  toncho/~ 5 sudo apt-get install libjack0.80.0-0
  Reading Package Lists... Done
  Building Dependency Tree... Done
  Package libjack0.80.0-0 has no available version, but exists in the database.
  This typically means that the package was mentioned in a dependency and
  never uploaded, has been obsoleted or is not available with the contents
  of sources.list
  E: Package libjack0.80.0-0 has no installation candidate

-- 
John Hasler