kopete

[Pino Toscano]

In data martedì 12 gennaio 2021 13:30:33 CET, Norbert Preining ha scritto:
> >> Le 12 janvier 2021 05:41:08 GMT+01:00, Norbert Preining
> > <norbert at preining.info> a écrit :
> >>> I have taken a shot at kopete, and fixed the build error (#979388) as
> >>> well as the permanently crashing libjingle-call (#913679, #948987).

> but serious bugs (compile error due to include c/c++ errors and crashed due to openssl incompatibility) have been fixed in Debian/patches ;-)

Hardly of use. That jingle stuff is even more dead than the rest of
kopete, as it was never properly worked on, or integrated with the rest
of kopete. The right fix is to disable the jingle bits everywhere,
dropping all the patches related to that.

> > Not to answer in place of Pino but for the record the only diff between
> > upstream 20.04.1 (found in experimental) and 20.12.0 is on documentation and
> > translations.

> Yes, nothing has been addressed upstream, [...]

Even more, look at the changes in the last 2 years:
https://invent.kde.org/network/kopete/-/compare/v18.12.0...v20.12.1

> >>> What is your opinion concerning upload to unstable to reintroduce kopete
> >>> now?

https://alioth-lists.debian.net/pipermail/pkg-kde-talk/2018-October/002798.html

Nothing has changed since then: kopete is basically abandoned. I don't
know why they keep releasing it with release service. There were bugs
reported for the KF5 version in Debian, but they were (wrongly) closed
together with the non-experimental bugs when kopete was removed from
unstable.

In short: no, do *not* upload kopete to unstable. It is not anything
remotely supportable or to let users use routinely. Also, it is now
way too late to introduce such package in unstable, even more so
because noone will ever look at fixing any problem reported for it.

I left kopete in experimental only as way to upload it in Debian
without passing through NEW, in case it had fixes and/or improvements.

-- 
Pino Toscano
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