Remove gnome-media-player from archive, 15.10+

Bug #1496986 reported by Bryan Quigley
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gnome-media-player (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

It doesn't seem to work (freezes), and reviews mention it's failing work to work all the way back to 12.04. It's unmaintained upstream (last in 2011) and uses old technologies (gstreamer0.10, etc)

It has no reverse dependencies and it isn't in Debian.

There are plenty of other video players.

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Bryan Quigley (bryanquigley) wrote :

bryan@desktop:~$ apt-cache showsrc gnome-media-player | grep Binary
Binary: gnome-media-player
bryan@desktop:~$ reverse-depends gnome-media-player
No reverse dependencies found
bryan@desktop:~$ reverse-depends -b gnome-media-player
No reverse dependencies found
bryan@desktop:~$ reverse-depends -b src:gnome-media-player
No reverse dependencies found
bryan@desktop:~$ reverse-depends src:gnome-media-player
No reverse dependencies found

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :

Removing packages from wily:
        gnome-media-player 0.1.3-0ubuntu8 in wily
                gnome-media-player 0.1.3-0ubuntu8 in wily amd64
                gnome-media-player 0.1.3-0ubuntu8 in wily arm64
                gnome-media-player 0.1.3-0ubuntu8 in wily armhf
                gnome-media-player 0.1.3-0ubuntu8 in wily i386
                gnome-media-player 0.1.3-0ubuntu8 in wily powerpc
                gnome-media-player 0.1.3-0ubuntu8 in wily ppc64el
Comment: requested by ~bryanquigley; unmaintained upstream, uses old gstreamer0.10, poor reviews, many alternatives, not in Debian; LP: #1496986
Remove [y|N]? y
1 package successfully removed.

Changed in gnome-media-player (Ubuntu):
status: New → Fix Released
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