[packman] MPlayer-1.1.1+r36500 now requires arts - is this intentional?

[Manfred Hollstein]

Hi there,

I was just trying to update to the latest version of MPlayer on
openSUSE-12.3 (x86_64):

  $ rpm -Uvh --test
  /nobackup/update-mirror/packman/suse/12.3/Essentials/x86_64/MPlayer-1.1.1+r36500-1.2.x86_64.rpm 
  error: Failed dependencies:
          libartsc.so.0()(64bit) is needed by MPlayer-1.1.1+r36500-1.2.x86_64

"zypper in MPlayer-1.1.1+r36500-1.2" would of course pull in any needed
packages, but, to be honest, I'd rather stay away from having this arts
stuff back on my systems... Also, arts will pull in qt3... This doesn't
look proper to me.

Another thing I saw is that zypper believes that my currently installed
version of MPlayer "1.1+35127-4.1" has a higher version number than the
newer one:

  $ zypper in MPlayer-1.1.1+r36500-1.2
  Loading repository data...
  Reading installed packages...
  The selected package 'MPlayer-1.1.1+r36500-1.2.x86_64' from repository 'packman' has lower version than the installed one. Use 'zypper install --oldpackage MPlayer-1.1.1+r36500-1.2.x86_64' to force installation of the package.
  Resolving package dependencies...

  Nothing to do.

>From what I can tell, 1.1.1+r36500-1.2 looks larger/higher to me  than
1.1+35127-4.1


Looking at the package's ChangeLog shows interesting stuff:

  $ rpm -qp /nobackup/update-mirror/packman/suse/12.3/Essentials/x86_64/MPlayer-1.1.1+r36500-1.2.x86_64.rpm --changelog
  * Tue Nov 05 2013 joerg.lorenzen at ki.tng.de
  - update to version 1.1.1+r36500
    * build against external libx264
    * build internal ffmpeg-2.1 (build against external ffmpeg also possible)
    * update Blue to version 1.8
    * update Clearlooks to version 1.5
    * added several patches from distro Mageia
    * (nearly) complete rewrite of specfile

The "(nearly) complete rewrite of specfile" looks quite suspicious to
me; could it be the source for suddenly require'ing libartsc again, as
my current version of MPlayer "1.1+35127-4.1" did not require it.

TIA, cheers.

l8er
manfred