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FS#12375 - Provide svn version of mplayer instead of archive releases.

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by kongokris 2 (nut543) - Sunday, 07 December 2008, 16:01 GMT
Last edited by Hugo Doria (hdoria) - Thursday, 22 January 2009, 11:08 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Hugo Doria (hdoria)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version None
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

I heard it said that the mplayer developers don't believe in releases, so then neither should we and should just package the svn version of their software.

This would also close a lot of bugs concerning mplayer on Flyspray.

As for if it is stable; I suppose it has to be considering they don't believe in releases and would rather have distributions package svn..
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Closed by  Hugo Doria (hdoria)
Thursday, 22 January 2009, 11:08 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Comment by Pierre Schmitz (Pierre) - Sunday, 07 December 2008, 16:14 GMT
Might be a valid point. Smplayer complains about an outdated version of mplayer for example.
Comment by Glenn Matthys (RedShift) - Sunday, 07 December 2008, 18:42 GMT
You "heard" this information? Can you please provide us with a proper statement from the developers of mplayer?
Comment by kongokris 2 (nut543) - Monday, 08 December 2008, 15:09 GMT
I say mplayer devs don't believe in releases if they don't even release a new version of mplayer when the one they released(gmplayer) couldn't open files with spaces in them(seems that bug was just closed in archlinux flyspray after a year or two..)

yeah smplayer depends on svn for some functions and says that mplayer-svn is stable. I tried getting an "official" stance from #mplayer:

<hairball> Are there any devs here?
<hairball> I want to know whether it's sane for a distro to package the svn version of your player instead of your release which never seems to get updated...
<hairball> I asked this question yesterday too...
<iive> yes it is
<iive> almost all distros (except debian) do that
<hairball> iive, oh, are you a dev?
<iive> kind of
<hairball> ubuntu uses a patched official version i think..
<cbreak> svn is official enough :)
<iive> i think they have svn revision number... if you count this as patch.
<hairball> cbreak, you a dev?
<cbreak> yes, but not of mplayer
<hairball> oh..
<iive> hairball: it is policy to never break svn, mplayer is kept stable at all times
<iive> the most common reason for breaking is if there is ffmpeg change, that haven't been yet reflected.

I checked gentoo and they are using an svn rev.. It seems safe to do this and it would also save on maintenance time of the package because it would close a lot of current and future bugs with mplayer in archlinux.
Comment by kongokris 2 (nut543) - Wednesday, 10 December 2008, 17:18 GMT
mplayer-plugin also recommends mplayer cvs..
Comment by Hugo Doria (hdoria) - Thursday, 22 January 2009, 11:08 GMT
Fixed in mplayer 28347-1.

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