Kiax now ready to go in?

[Emil Stoyanov]

George Danchev wrote:
> On Sunday 07 May 2006 13:13, Santiago Garcia Mantinan wrote:
>   
>> Hi!
>>
>> After the last changes I did (mainly remove the non dfsg stuff, the worst
>> job had already been done by others) I believe that all we need to upload
>> is to change from UNRELEASED to unstable and upload.
>>
>> Can somebody please take a look to current trunk and tell me how they see
>> it?
>>     
>
> Builds fine here. I've just added tarballs and build-area symlinks.
>
> Thanks for sorting this out !
>
>   
>> I'd also like to know how things are with upstream, if nobody has notified
>> him that we would be removing non dfsg stuff (the lib directory) out of the
>> package I think we should at least write to him to tell him so.
>>     
>
> Emil, the lib/ directory has been removed from kiax 0.8.5 tarball since it 
> contains either non-free code [1] or duplicas libraries which have already 
> being packaged for Debian. I hope that is fine with you.
>
> It is not kiax alone which links against libraries of this sort, there are 
> many such projects around, but seems kiax is the only one distributing lib 
> with itself. Bear in mind that you are not allowed to modify the original 
> source code for lib/portaudio and lib/portmixer without contributing back to 
> the original author.
>
>   
>> Well I suppose that's all, I'm willing to upload it when we feel it is
>> ready to in.
>>     
>
> I'm still concerned if any impact will manifest after cleaning the non-free 
> bits out since I'm pretty sure that we are the only testers of that 
> particular _free_ tarball.
>
> [1]http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-voip-maintainers/2006-May/004674.html
>
>   
I am fine with it. Do what you need to fit your requirements. The kiax's 
lib includes actually a modified version of the iaxclient based on the 
Tipic's version having a finer implementation of the EC algorithm 
(broken on standard iaxclient). Removing of the iLBC code is as easy as 
setting CODEC_ILBC=0 in the lib/Makefile, deleting the iLBC subdir and 
rebuilding the binaries. Anyway, linking to a current cvs iaxclient 
shouldnt do harm to the app itself, except the quality of EC.

Regards,
Emil