Bug#732159: Should this package be removed?

[Moritz Mühlenhoff]

On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 05:07:36PM -0500, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 4:28 PM, Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm at debian.org> wrote:
> > Package: mplayer
> > Severity: serious
> >
> > Should this package be removed? If so, please reassign to ftp.debian.org
> >
> > - Last upload nearly two years ago
> > - FTBFS for a long time
> > - Incompatible with current libav
> > - Alternatives exist (mplayer2, mpv)
> 
> I tend to agree, however please keep in mind that this also removes
> mencoder, for which no drop-in alternatives exist atm: Currently, two
> packages depend on mencoder, toonloop and photofilmstrip:

Shall we go ahead with the removal now?

toonloop has been removed from testing half a year ago and the last
maintainer upload was two years ago and photofilmstrip is already
removed from jessie since half a year. popcon is marginal for both.

We can ask FTP masters to remove mplayer forcefully despite the
remaining reverse deps.

Cheers,
        Moritz