Bug#685880: unblock: libpt2.10.4, libopal3.10.4, ekiga
Package: release.debian.org
Severity: normal
User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
Usertags: unblock
Dear release managers,
We know we are in late, however... please consider the following
demand, which highly increases the quality of debian with respect to
these three packages packages.
I am release manager of ekiga. I am in close contact with ptlib/opal
team and have svn access. I am co-maintainer of these three packages,
Mark is co-maintainer of ptlib/opal, and Kilian is co-maintainer of
ekiga (both in CC).
A new ptlib and opal stable release, 2.10.7 compared to currently
2.10.4 in debian, together with a new ekiga release, 3.9.90 (beta)
compared to 3.2.7, appeared yesterday. They bring numerous fixes. We
would like to upload it into unstable, and if hopefully no major issue
appears, we will ask you to unblock it to go to testing. For your
information, these new releases have already been pushed in Fedora,
cf.
https://mail.gnome.org/archives/ekiga-devel-list/2012-August/msg00034.html.
ptlib/opal have almost no reverse dependencies, so the transition
should be easy.
Current problems with ptlib, opal, ekiga in debian
=================
- current versions of ptlib and opal packages (uploaded a few months
ago) do not work well with current version of ekiga, see bugs below
- important bugs: crash on startup (bug #670405), on exit from call
(bug #684999), on call (bug #679255), (#685399)
- use very old versions for ptlib, opal and ekiga, not maintained
upstream any more since about 2 years
Advantages of the proposed upload compared to versions in testing
=================
- it fixes all the problems above
- add support for GNU/Hurd
- add support for powerful H.263+ and H.264 video codecs
- add a pulse audio plugin (only alsa is available currently)
- fix build error with GTK 2.24, binutils-gold, with -Wl,-z,defs, on FreeBSD
- replace some deprecated symbols
- crash and many other fixes, not necessarily reported in debian BTS
Please let us know what do you think.
Best regards,
--
Eugen Dedu
http://eugen.dedu.free.fr
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