Bug#685880: unblock: libpt2.10.4, libopal3.10.4, ekiga

[Eugen Dedu <Eugen.Dedu@pu-pm.univ-fcomte.fr>]

Hi Julien,

With ekiga 4.0.0 now having reached experimental (all architectures 
installed except hurd), having been well tested and already included in 
several other distributions, I reiterate my wish to upload it as is in 
unstable with the goal to finally land in testing.

As I wrote below, current ekiga in testing has critical issues, such as 
not starting for many people.  I am sure that, even in this late release 
cycle, pushing 4.0.0 in testing will make ekiga much better in debian.

I look forward to hearing from you,
Eugen
http://eugen.dedu.free.fr

On 10/10/12 23:38, Eugen Dedu wrote:
> On 10/10/12 23:18, Julien Cristau wrote:
> > Hi Eugen,
> >
> > On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 23:01:48 +0200, Eugen Dedu wrote:
> >
> > > Please let us know what do you think.
> > We'd need to see a diff before thinking anything (other than "indeed
> > you're late")...
>
> Or maybe this is useful: http://git.gnome.org/browse/ekiga/plain/NEWS,
> look from top until ekiga 3.3.0 (included) to see briefly what happened
> since 3.2.7, current version in debian.
>
> > Although from your list these:
> > - 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
> > don't sound appropriate (or necessarily relevant)...
>
> Currently, ekiga is in very bad state in debian. Either we go back to
> older releases of ptlib, opal, or we update ekiga, as I wrote in my
> initial e-mail. I think the latter is much better, even in this late
> period of the release.