Bug#578622: mplayer: FTBFS on kfreebsd-amd64 (vidix disable needed)

[Petr Salinger]

> I can understand your position if you are only a porter and not a direct
> maintainer of a package.  However, I have seen package maintainers in
> different distros duplicate each other's work and add hacks to their
> packages that I could have fixed quicker and cleaner if somebody had
> shared their problems with me.
>
> I'm just letting you know the upstream position.  We want to hear about
> issues and we want the patches.  Everybody's life gets easier if work
> gets upstreamed.
>
> Just look how quick we managed to get GNU/kfreebsd building, it was a
> matter of hours after we received the reports.  And now that it's
> upstream nobody will have extra work maintaining patches again...

Unfortunately, I have to repeat again that not every upstream is 
responsive as you, see i.e. [2]