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gxine was orphaned in November by the MIA Team. [1]

It is one of the last packages depending on the ancient mozjs (the
SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine from um, Firefox 4, I believe). For
that reason, it was removed from Testing 6 months ago. [2]

mozjs has been replaced by mozj52 (corresponds with Firefox 52 ESR)
which is still supported by Mozilla.

gxine is still maintained somewhat upstream so if this issue is ever
fixed and there's a Debian maintainer, gxine can be reintroduced to
Debian. But for now, please remove gxine from Debian.

[1] https://bugs.debian.org/881509
[2] https://bugs.debian.org/863786
[3] https://sourceforge.net/projects/xine/files/gxine/

Thanks,
Jeremy Bicha

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