Bug#1005899: mplayer: should not release with bookworm
On Thu, Feb 17, 2022 at 08:45:59PM +0100, Sebastian Ramacher wrote:
> On 2022-02-17 19:13:08 +0100, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> >
> > > On 16 Feb 2022, at 23:25, Sebastian Ramacher <sramacher@debian.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > Let's stop pretending that mplayer is maintained.
> >
> > What is your criteria for "maintained"? In Debian or upstream? Upstream issues are still addressed from time to time, there are still several people around that can address issues, in particular security issues.
>
> It's definitely not maintained in Debian. Looking at the recent history
> of mplayer uploads, I did most of them without any bug triaging. So
> that's not what I would consider mplaer being maintained.
As to the bugs, I have looked through them from time to time and they
all looked outdated, were not reproducible or definitely not relevant
anymore (like G3 PowerPC).
I didn't want to meddle with them beyond a quick check as I don't
know much about the process.
> If you want to pick up maintenance of mplayer in Debian, please feel
> free do that.
I asked one person with at least some knowledge about all that,
but they seemed to think that Debian requirements
are too high relative to the time they have available.
> > > The upstream mailing
> > > list infrastructure is gone
> >
> > I have absolutely no idea why you claim that.
> > It's there and working.
>
> Yesterday evening lists.mplayerhq.hu failed to resolve. Otherwise I
> would have forwarded the build failure with ffmpeg 5.0. In the end, this
> will need to be fixed for bookworm.
Compilation with FFmpeg 5.0 has been fixed since a while in our repo.
Finally we've also built the release packages, though not done the final
steps for releasing yet (download links etc).
http://mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/MPlayer-1.5.tar.xz
is the release that supports FFmpeg 5.0
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