Bug#880926: RFH: linphone -- SIP softphone - graphical client

2017-11-06 Thread Dr. Tobias Quathamer 
Am 05.11.2017 um 19:49 schrieb Bernhard Schmidt:
> Hi,
> 
> although I'm not the maintainer of the current linphone package (and not
> a user anyway), I'm asking for help on behalf of the pkg-voip team.

Hi,

I've briefly looked at the packages and bugs and there's surely a lot to
do. Although I'm not using linphone much, I'd like to help out here and
try to get the new linphone into shape for buster.

I cannot promise to do much of this work, but if several people join,
maybe the packaging gets a bit more momentum. Anyway, I'd like to make a
start. Just requested to join the Alioth project for commit access.

Regards,
Tobias



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Bug#880926: RFH: linphone -- SIP softphone - graphical client

2017-11-05 Thread Bernhard Schmidt 
Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

Hi,

although I'm not the maintainer of the current linphone package (and not
a user anyway), I'm asking for help on behalf of the pkg-voip team.

linphone in Debian is in a pretty bad shape, it has not seen an upstream
release packaged for four years.

There have been a couple of attempts to revive packaging of a current
linphone [1][2][3], but all of them have somewhat stalled.

The dependency stack is quite large and tightly coupled. Part of it is
already in Debian, part is in NEW, most of the updated packages are
already in the pkg-voip git repo. Most of them need minor updates to
build with gcc-7. I've written about the current status here [4]

Upstream is now switching away from the GTK2+ GUI client bundled in
src:linphone towards a Qt5-based linphone-desktop, which needs to be
packaged as well.

linphone needs at least one Developer (or maintainer, I can sponsor 
the uploads if necessary) to take care of this reliably.

Best Regards,
Bernhard

[1] 
https://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-voip-maintainers/2016-November/029603.html
[2] 
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-voip-maintainers/2016-December/029963.html
[3] 
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-voip-maintainers/2017-April/030495.html
[4] 
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-voip-maintainers/2017-October/031389.html