yate 1

[George Danchev]

On Thursday 13 July 2006 10:16 am, Diana Cionoiu wrote:
> Hello George,

Hello,

please avoid top-posting, makes things to follow easier ;-)

> We've made the .deb files based on the old .deb files. There is no need
> for diff.gz as far as i can 

diff.gz contains the debian patch, this is where your debian/ directory with 
maintainer scripts and debian specific patches (if any) reside. In order to 
review how your debs files have been produced one need that diff.gz file, 
otherwise your are distributing mere binaries, with not way to fix anything.

It is not wise for a Debian Developer to upload mere binary packages only, 
e.g. debs, so you will not see that happend.

> tell and i've also provided the link to the 
> Yate tarball http://yate.null.ro/tarballs/yate1/yate-1.0.0-1.tar.gz .

Right, that is orig.tar.gz which Debian should repackage ad dfsg.orig.tar.gz 
with contrib/ilbc stripped.

> For the ilbc i think debian should have a patch to strip ilbc from
> sources and to use the ilbc library. Since a lot of other distros don't
> have ilbc and don't have this restriction we are forced to keep it.

Debian does not have ilbc packaged as a separate library package. It is 
non-free software, and this is the reason you wouldn't find it in other 
distros either.

> Since Debian VoIP Team didn't package the last yate and yate has a alot
> of debian users we have been forced to find a solution. However if you
> need us to do anything please let us know and we will try to modify
> whatever is necessary.

Well, I suggest to start it this way:
 * check out the last debian/ directory with maintainer files:
svn co svn://svn.alioth.debian.org/svn/pkg-voip/yate/trunk
 * make the needed updates to the maintainer files in order to build the 1.0.0 
packages
 * send us the patch (svn diff)

Ref: Read the README at http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-voip
to see how to use svn-buildpackage and ease your work.

Otherwise, wait untill someone from the people involved makes the above 
happend.

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