mplayer - Debian Package Tracker

general

source: mplayer (main)
version: 2:1.5+svn38674-5
maintainer: Debian Multimedia Maintainers (archive) (DMD)
uploaders: Reinhard Tartler [DMD] – A Mennucc1 [DMD] – Miguel A. Colón Vélez [DMD] – Lorenzo Puliti [DMD] [DM]
arch: all any
std-ver: 4.7.2
VCS: Git (Browse, QA)

versions [more versions can be listed by madison] [old versions available from snapshot.debian.org]

[pool directory]

o-o-stable: 2:1.4+ds1-1+deb11u1
oldstable: 2:1.5+svn38408-1
stable: 2:1.5+svn38674-2
testing: 2:1.5+svn38674-3
unstable: 2:1.5+svn38674-5

versioned links

2:1.4+ds1-1+deb11u1: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
2:1.5+svn38408-1: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
2:1.5+svn38674-2: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
2:1.5+svn38674-3: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
2:1.5+svn38674-5: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]

binaries

mencoder (1 bugs: 0, 1, 0, 0)
mplayer (17 bugs: 0, 13, 4, 0)
mplayer-doc
mplayer-gui

action needed

Marked for autoremoval on 12 January: #1115054, #967643 high

Version 2:1.5+svn38674-3 of mplayer is marked for autoremoval from testing on Mon 12 Jan 2026. It is affected by #1115054, #967643. The removal of mplayer will also cause the removal of (transitive) reverse dependencies: devede, mplayer-blue, ogmrip, vdr-plugin-mp3, videotrans. You should try to prevent the removal by fixing these RC bugs.

Created: 2025-12-13 Last update: 2025-12-18 23:46

A new upstream version is available: 1.5+svn38681 high

A new upstream version 1.5+svn38681 is available, you should consider packaging it.

Created: 2025-11-26 Last update: 2025-12-18 23:46

debian/patches: 1 patch with invalid metadata, 3 patches to forward upstream high

Among the 7 debian patches available in version 2:1.5+svn38674-5 of the package, we noticed the following issues:

1 patch with invalid metadata that ought to be fixed.
3 patches where the metadata indicates that the patch has not yet been forwarded upstream. You should either forward the patch upstream or update the metadata to document its real status.

Created: 2023-02-26 Last update: 2025-12-17 08:00

1 bug tagged help in the BTS normal

The BTS contains 1 bug tagged help, please consider helping the maintainer in dealing with it.

Created: 2025-12-16 Last update: 2025-12-19 00:30

1 bug tagged patch in the BTS normal

The BTS contains patches fixing 1 bug, consider including or untagging them.

Created: 2025-12-14 Last update: 2025-12-19 00:30

Depends on packages which need a new maintainer normal

The packages that mplayer depends on which need a new maintainer are:

nas (#354174)
- Depends: libaudio2 libaudio2
- Build-Depends: libaudio-dev
libdv (#814889)
- Depends: libdv4t64 libdv4t64 libdv4t64
docbook-xml (#802368)
- Build-Depends-Indep: docbook-xml
docbook-xsl (#802370)
- Build-Depends-Indep: docbook-xsl

Created: 2019-11-22 Last update: 2025-12-18 22:30

lintian reports 4 warnings normal

Lintian reports 4 warnings about this package. You should make the package lintian clean getting rid of them.

Created: 2025-12-17 Last update: 2025-12-17 04:30

version in VCS is newer than in repository, is it time to upload? normal

vcswatch reports that this package seems to have a new changelog entry (version 2:1.5+svn38674-6, distribution UNRELEASED) and new commits in its VCS. You should consider whether it's time to make an upload.

Here are the relevant commit messages:

commit 61ccb4f24d84401d51cbd3009485e8fe2a235c91
Author: Lorenzo Puliti <plorenzo@disroot.org>
Date:   Tue Dec 16 17:40:32 2025 +0100

    new changelog entry, for testing

Created: 2025-12-16 Last update: 2025-12-16 22:18

1 open merge request in Salsa normal

There is 1 open merge request for this package on Salsa. You should consider reviewing and/or merging these merge requests.

Created: 2025-12-13 Last update: 2025-12-13 06:04

AppStream hints: 1 warning normal

AppStream found metadata issues for packages:

mplayer-gui: 1 warning

You should get rid of them to provide more metadata about this software.

Created: 2020-06-01 Last update: 2020-06-01 01:13

testing migrations

excuses:
- Migration status for mplayer (2:1.5+svn38674-3 to 2:1.5+svn38674-5): Waiting for test results or another package, or too young (no action required now - check later)
- Issues preventing migration:
- ∙ ∙ Too young, only 2 of 5 days old
- Additional info (not blocking):
- ∙ ∙ Updating mplayer will fix bugs in testing: #1115054
- ∙ ∙ Piuparts tested OK - https://piuparts.debian.org/sid/source/m/mplayer.html
- ∙ ∙ Reproducible on amd64 - info ♻
- ∙ ∙ Reproducible on arm64 - info ♻
- Not considered

news

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[2025-12-16] Accepted mplayer 2:1.5+svn38674-5 (source) into unstable (Lorenzo Puliti)
[2025-09-21] Accepted mplayer 2:1.5+svn38674-4 (source) into experimental (Lorenzo Puliti)
[2025-09-19] mplayer 2:1.5+svn38674-3 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2025-09-13] Accepted mplayer 2:1.5+svn38674-3 (source) into unstable (Lorenzo Puliti)
[2025-03-30] mplayer 2:1.5+svn38674-2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2025-03-25] Accepted mplayer 2:1.5+svn38674-2 (source) into unstable (Lorenzo Puliti) (signed by: Jeroen Ploemen)
[2025-02-17] mplayer 2:1.5+svn38674-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2025-02-11] Accepted mplayer 2:1.5+svn38674-1 (source) into unstable (Lorenzo Puliti) (signed by: Boyuan Yang)
[2024-12-26] mplayer 2:1.5+svn38638-3 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2024-12-21] Accepted mplayer 2:1.5+svn38638-3 (source) into unstable (Lorenzo Puliti) (signed by: bage@debian.org)
[2024-12-19] Accepted mplayer 2:1.5+svn38638-2 (source) into unstable (Lorenzo Puliti) (signed by: Boyuan Yang)
[2024-10-04] Accepted mplayer 2:1.5+svn38638-1 (source) into experimental (Lorenzo Puliti) (signed by: bage@debian.org)
[2024-08-25] mplayer REMOVED from testing (Debian testing watch)
[2024-06-11] mplayer 2:1.5+svn38542-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2024-06-06] Accepted mplayer 2:1.5+svn38542-1 (source) into unstable (Lorenzo Puliti) (signed by: Francisco Vilmar Cardoso Ruviaro)
[2024-05-02] mplayer 2:1.5+svn38446-2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2024-04-13] Accepted mplayer 2:1.5+svn38446-2 (source) into unstable (Lorenzo Puliti) (signed by: Tobias Frost)
[2023-12-17] mplayer 2:1.5+svn38446-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2023-12-12] Accepted mplayer 2:1.5+svn38446-1 (source) into unstable (Bastian Germann) (signed by: bage@debian.org)
[2023-06-24] mplayer 2:1.5+svn38423-2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2023-06-19] Accepted mplayer 2:1.5+svn38423-2 (source) into unstable (Lorenzo Puliti) (signed by: Adam Borowski)
[2023-05-27] Accepted mplayer 2:1.5+svn38423-1 (source) into experimental (Lorenzo Puliti) (signed by: Adam Borowski)
[2023-02-13] mplayer 2:1.5+svn38408-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2023-02-07] Accepted mplayer 2:1.5+svn38408-1 (source) into unstable (Lorenzo Puliti) (signed by: Adam Borowski)
[2022-12-31] Accepted mplayer 2:1.3.0-8+deb10u1 (source amd64 all) into oldstable (Thorsten Alteholz)
[2022-12-09] Accepted mplayer 2:1.4+ds1-1+deb11u1 (source) into proposed-updates (Debian FTP Masters) (signed by: Moritz Mühlenhoff)
[2022-05-03] mplayer REMOVED from testing (Debian testing watch)
[2022-01-22] mplayer 2:1.4+ds1-3 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2022-01-16] Accepted mplayer 2:1.4+ds1-3 (source) into unstable (Sebastian Ramacher)
[2021-09-18] mplayer 2:1.4+ds1-2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)

bugs [bug history graph]

all: 20
RC: 1
I&N: 15
M&W: 4
F&P: 0
patch: 1
help: 1

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version: 2:1.5+svn38674-5
179 bugs (3 patches)