Bug#884635: transition: libupnp

[Bernhard Schmidt <berni@debian.org>]

Hi,

Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> wrote:

> Before this transition can start, we will need a solution for amule,
> djmount, gmrender-resurrect and linphone (which is either RM or upload
> with a fix).
>
> Removing all of them leads to the following collateral damage[1]:
>
> """
> Checking reverse dependencies...
> # Broken Depends:
> kopete: kopete
> libosmo-abis: libosmotrau2
>
> # Broken Build-Depends:
> kopete: libmediastreamer-dev (>= 3.6)
>         libortp-dev (>= 0.13)
> libosmo-abis: libortp-dev
> libosmo-netif: libortp-dev
> osmo-bts: libortp-dev
>
> Dependency problem found.
> """
> (I have not researched exactly which package causes what to break; that
> is an exercise left for the reader)

All of these are caused by linphone. We have a really really old
linphone in testing/unstable that has been out-of-date since several
Debian releases. The current version is staged in experimental, the
transition (Bug#891620) is blocked by Kopete which does not build
against a current libmediastreamer (Bug#890606).

There is an upstream bug with patches attached. The first one was just
NULLing additional arguments. Felix Lechner recently created a better
one that still fails compilation. The upstream bug has been open for two
years now, without any significant progress. We've suggested to the
kopete maintainers to drop Jingle support and allow us to proceed, but
no response.

The linphone stack in experimental does not use libupnp anymore as far
as I can see.

If it helps please RM src:linphone from testing, we will rather have
Buster without linphone than with this version.

Bernhard