Hello Gianluca, On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 05:51:18PM +0100, Gianluca Bonetti wrote: > Package: xmovie > Version: 1.9.12-1.1 > Followup-For: Bug #140474 > > Bug #140474 is not reproducible any more.
This I don't understand. Are my "patches" included now?
> The original report has been opened in 2002 and is not reproducible with
> current build toolchain in Lenny and over.
> There is also a more generic bug about compiling problems with xmovie.
> Bug is #436173 and applies to all architectures (i386/amd64 included).
xmovie include(ed?) special code for the alpha platform, so back then
I needed only the minor "patches" to use them. I do not remember
seeing special code for other architectures (special codes implies
that upstream at one point cared about this architecture).
> To my eyes, xmovie is old and buggy, has not given a new major
> release since many years (7 or more) and we have better
> alternatives, like mplayer, so there is no need of xmovie any more.
Well, I do not used alpha as my primary machine anymore, but up to
around 2004 (I guess) I had a certain mov file which did not play with
mplayer but only with xmovie[1]. But I guess this is a rare exception,
maybe fixed nowadays.
If you want, I can provide you with this file off-bug.
The rather more problematic issue is that the maintainer is mostly
MIA.
Greetings
Helge
[1] It plays fine on amd64 with mplayer, hence I don't care anymore.
P.S. It would be nice if you CC: me when working on "my" bugs as the
BTS does not forward mails to the submitter and I rarely look into
these old bugs nowadays myself unless there is a compelling reason to
do so.
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