Bug#116359: ITP: apron -- An MPEG player running in a text-console
On 20 Oct 2001, [iso-8859-1] Jérôme Marant wrote:
> Uwe Hermann <uh1763@hermann-uwe.de> writes:
>
> > Package: wnpp
> > Severity: wishlist
> >
> > * Package name : apron
> > * Version : 0.2
> > * Upstream Author : Alexander Southgate <alex@spondooliks.org>
> > * URL : http://spondooliks.org/alex/apron/apron.php3
> > * License : GPL
> > * Description : An MPEG player running in a text-console.
> >
> > It uses aalib for displaying the videos...
>
> Are you serious? Does Debian really need this kind of useless
> software?
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.
Well... miracles do happen ;-)
> 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.
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