uw-imap and asterisk

[Faidon Liambotis]

Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> I am aware of this. And have struggled to make a local sideport of
> Asterisk actually compile against a recent uw-imap. Without luck.
Well, it *works* with current trunk. It needed a tiny change in
configure (-lc-client instead of /usr/include/c-client/c-client.a) and
just worked :-)

> UW-imap upstream has a weird way of compiling. But for Debian I have
> considered introducing a pkg-config file, to ease autotools-based use of
> libc-client for things like asterisk.
> 
> Would you be interested in that? Perhaps help make the needed
> adjustments? Or do you perhaps find it a wrong thing to do?
To be honest, I'm not really interested since compilation currently
works for me.

> I maintain 40+ packages officially for Debian, and have found packaging
> routines that I would not like to change too much in odd directions -
> instead I want to streamline the packaging across the packages even more.
> 
> UW-imap is packaged using CDBS, and that won't change. Also, patches are
> done using quilt - I find dpatch disgusting to work with.
You misunderstood. I don't propose to comaintain the package (it is out
of pkg-voip's scope) and personally I don't really care how is it
packaged, as long as it has a maintainer.
[however, I agree completely about quilt and that's why asterisk
switched to quilt]

> From a quick look at those snippets in the asterisk package, they seem
> to not be needed with my current CDBS-based packaging mechanisms - if
> you are willing to add a "flag" to the autobuilders doing side- and
> backports: If you include cdbs-autoupdate to DEB_BUILD_OPTS then
> build-dependencies are recalculated at build time, and for the cases
> where that by itself does not automagically solve issues, it is easy to
> include needed adjustments as ifdef's within debian/rules.
I'm not sure about the backporting procedure; Kilian can help with that.
I'm under the impression that it only executes debian/backports/$DIST
scripts.
Have in mind that SRTP, which you maintain, is being snapshotted; you
don't have to do anything different than what you are doing there.

Anyway, this is not such a big deal since there is no need yet.
The more important question remains however: do you maintain in a VCS
that the buildserver can have access to?
AFAIK, buildserver can't snapshot unstable, only version control systems.

> Looking forward to asterisk with imap support!
That's already being done in our SVN and will be in the next upload to
Debian. This is going to take a while though, since we want to have the
current version in testing first.

It's backports that is the problem, currently.

Regards,
Faidon