[MPlayer-dev-eng] release alongside FFmpeg

[Nico Sabbi]

On Monday 02 February 2009 13:14:55 Benjamin Zores wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Nico Sabbi <Nicola.Sabbi at poste.it> 
wrote:
> > yes great idea, so people will report problems against the new
> > release, we'll tell them to use a fresh svn update and over and
> > over and over..........
> > It's the bad old endless story
>
> In the same time, release is needed.
> Most distros are currently packaging deprecated versions of MPlayer
> (i.e. rc2)

and so they will keep on doing, even after the next release.
Whether users report bugs preset in a  1-day old or 1-year old release 
is irrelevant: they'll be still using old code.

Is it so important what diSAstros package?