On Mi, 01 apr 20, 08:58:16, Celejar wrote: > On Wed, 1 Apr 2020 03:57:17 +0000 > "Russell L. Harris" <russ...@rlharris.org> wrote: > > > server. And Jitsi is open source. What more could you ask? > > I am indeed strongly tempted to try that. I suppose I'm just spoiled by > Debian - I almost always install stuff from the repos, and I tend to > assume (probably somewhat unreasonably) that if something isn't there, > there's a good reason for it, and that installing manually from > upstream is going to be more trouble than it's worth (at least for me > with my limited sysadmin skills). I acknowledge that this is an overly > narrow and pessimistic attitude ...
On a quick research I couldn't find any particular reason why the package is not available also from Debian repositories. There used to be a package maintained by two persons with @jitsi.org e-mail addresses. At some point they just stopped uploading it, though one of those persons is still maintaining the upstream packages. It could be a manpower issue and/or upstream wants more flexibility than allowed by Debian policies. E.g. in many cases upstream projects don't have a "stable", "long term support", "ESR", etc. branch (they may have valid reasons for that). This makes it very difficult to provide security support for the package in Debian. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser
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