Status of spandsp

[Simon Richter]

Hi,

Let me apologize for the harsh words beforehand.

When I agreed to hand over the spandsp package to pkg-voip, the idea I
had in mind was "great, someone else volunteers to maintain it, so I
don't have to.", which sounds like a fair enough deal, provided that the
package actually works.

Since then, the packaging has gotten a great deal more complicated, and
there have been interesting breakages that no one bothered to clean up.
I cannot help myself but think that it was assumed all the time that I
would continue to maintain the package, only using the pkg-voip
infrastructure which I consider pretty clumsy and overblown for
something that is in essence a library package that is pretty stable.

As I require this package for my work, I would like to take it back;
given the track record so far, I'm not sure it would be a good idea to
continue maintaining it as a "plug-in" for the various programs that use
it, but rather as a shared library in its own right, so I'm not
confident that keeping it in the same repository as the programs using
it and uploading it alongside with them is going to do the package any good.

   Simon

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