Re: Intent to package "gphone"
Cool. It's only been packaged twice now unofficially.
I've got aptable sources for it listed as:
deb http://linuxart.com deb/
and
deb http://dr.jones.dk/pub/debian/local/ [something something]
[ look on the site, I've got a few apt lines for that one]
Since you've got a @debian address, I'm guess this means it'll finally be
official.
You might want to check out the other 2 packages, in case they did
something cool to it, and notify the erstwhile packagers that you've got
official packages now.
Seth
On Sun, 17 Sep 2000 nveber@primusolutions.net wrote:
> I have created a debian package of "gphone" - a X/gtk internet phone. It is
> distributed under the GNU license. It is at this point a very basic program
> with not many features, but it is hoped that its inclusion in the debian
> distribution will bring more attention to the program, and hopefully
> encourage developers to help.
>
> Also, since debian doesnt have any similar application packaged (that I
> could find), I thought this would be useful.
>
> It is located at http://gphone.sourceforge.net/
>
> What follows below is a letter from the author:
>
> Delivered-To: nveber@pyre.virge.net
> To: nveber@debian.org
> Subject: Re: gphone
> From: Roland Dreier <roland@valinux.com>
> Date: 05 Sep 2000 10:18:51 -0700
> In-Reply-To: nveber@debian.org's message of "Tue, 5 Sep 2000 00:49:14 -0400"
> X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.45/XEmacs 21.1 - "Arches"
>
> >>>>> "nveber" == nveber <nveber@debian.org> writes:
>
> nveber> I tried using your gphone application. It does what its
> nveber> intended to do, but is lacking in some useful features
> nveber> (ie. codecs, the ability to be notified of an incoming
> nveber> call and chose weather or not to answer it, maybe an
> nveber> icq-like contact list, encryption, esd support - or at
> nveber> least an option for it not to tie up the sound device the
> nveber> whole time its running, etc). Are you still interested in
> nveber> activelly developing it? If so, I would be willing to
> nveber> package it into the debian linux distribution, that way it
> nveber> would get more exposure, and hopefully more people working
> nveber> on the project. Also, I'm not sure if you are aware of
> nveber> most of the features mentioned above --
> nveber> http://efone.elysium.pl/. However, I think most people
> nveber> would preffer to use a gui for something like this,
> nveber> perhaps some of the efone source could be of use? There
> nveber> definitely isnt a full featured internet phone application
> nveber> out there (that I'm aware of), so gphone has great
> nveber> potential for success.
>
> I am still (semi-)actively developing gphone, though other obligations
> have prevented me from putting much time into it lately. I would love
> to see it become part of Debian -- I'm sure that would really give
> development a big boost. (And most of the ideas for features you
> suggested above are on my roadmap).
>
> I am aware of several other IP telephone applications for Linux;
> perhaps the most useful code to integrate with would be a SIP stack,
> either libdissipate or Vovida's stack.
>
> Cheers,
> Roland
>
>
>
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