Bug#374791: ITP: ortp -- Real-time Transport Protocol library

[Samuel Mimram <samuel.mimram@ens-lyon.org>]

Hi,

Mark Purcell wrote:
> On Wednesday 21 June 2006 21:15, Samuel Mimram wrote:
>> I've already packaged the ortp library which comes with linphone and
>> which is the same as the one packaged separately (Simon, can you confirm
>> that?). See libortp4-dev. Therefore, I don't think that you need to do
>> this package.
>
> I am proposing to maintain this through pkg-voip maintainers, of which you are 
> a member...
> 
> http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-voip
> 
> You have commit rights to the svn archive, so please feel free to commit 
> changes as you think necessary.. Including the extended debian/changelog if 
> you have done some packaging work in the past..

The point is that I don't think we needed to make a *new* package for
the libortp since it is already provided by linphone. If you really
needed libortp5, I could have packaged the unstable version of linphone
and upload it, at least in experimental...

I did not intent to be rough, I was just very surprised to see someone
uploading a libortp without checking whether it was already in the
archive or not! I think it was simpler for us to have only one package.
However, I'm having second thoughts. Since it's already uploaded, it
might be nicer to have a separate package for libortp since we might
want to update the lib without updating linphone, etc. I'll do the
necessary changes when ortp is out of NEW. But please, next time, just
send a mail to the maintainer before hijacking a package...

Cheers,

Samuel.