OK I have the same problem with mplayer and other stuff that does not run in etch right now. My etch a month ago was running great... until I had to reinstall from scratch. Now I try to reinstall etch and can't the same stuff as I had 2 days before! Confusing and fustrating.
Have few short questions about the fix proposed above.
(1) Isn't it so that /etc/apt/sources.list is prioritised from top to bottom? So actually, if am running etch, shouldn't I be putting the lines concerning ETCH first, and then does extra ones from SARGE?
(2) Actually wouldn't it be more interesting to put SID instead of SARGE as a complementary repository? (newer stuff, compared to conservative stable/sarge)
(3) Can't I just take marillat's SID version, or will that not work with the rest of my Debian's main ETCH stuff?
For the time being I have been keeping cool with the issue, since there is no hurry on my side, but is this an issue seriously being worked on? It doesn't concern only marillat but also other stuff I would like to get back: baghira (mac style kde-window theme), amarok, k3b, etc... In other words, how long could this take to get back to "normal"? (oh wait, this is the normal linux struggle-to-install style...)
Thanks for any help on the above. Haven't tried mixing repositories of different branches, so I am trying to act cautiously as well.
Philippe