Package maintenance

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 02:52:50PM +0200, Patrick Matthäi wrote:
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> Hello list,
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> I think we should start something like a QA / Bugsquashing weekend.
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> There are many outdated packages and packages with more or less serious
> lintian warnings / errors [1].
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> What do you think about it?
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> I've created on the base of checkwatches an list of packages with newer
> upstream versions and broken watch files:
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> Packages with newer upstream versions:
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>  * agx-ast-addons (1.4.3 => 1.4.5)

Do we need it? 

>  * asterisk-spandsp-plugins (20070624 => 20080507)

Consider together with agx-ast-addons. It seems it has actually been in
use.

>  * asterisk1.2 (1.2.24 => 1.2.28)

Dead. Should be purged.

>  * asterisk-sounds-extra (1.2.1 => 1.4.7)

This one needs discussion. We need to consider just what sound formats
we package and how. There are currently too many options, and thus we
can't package "everything" or "every tarball in its own package".

See http://downloads.digium.com/pub/telephony/sounds/ .

BTW: sln/wav is no longer good enough. We now have sln16 and g722
widebands.


>  * callweaver (1.2.0~rc4 => 1.2.0~rc5)

Does it build?

>  * libpri (1.4.3 => 1.4.4)

1.4.4 has a host of changes. Adapting bristuff to them will take work.
We will need it if we want to make it possible to build Asterisk 1.6 vs.
Lenny packages.

>  * libsupertone (20060205 => 20080407)
>  * libunicall (20070325 => 20080407)

Consider together with callweaver? Or do we package chan_unicall?

>  * spandsp (0.0.5pre1 => 0.0.5pre2)

0.0.4pre18 is the version in Sid.

0.0.5pre1 is plain broken (a file was missing). pre2 should have fixed
that. We should test it. There's a pretty good chance that going for
0.0.5 will break some existing packages. But there is some chance that
0.0.5 will actually have a long-standing API. Though this may be some
wishful thinking on my side.

>  * misdn-kernel (1.1.7 => 1.1.7.2)

mISDN is a nice bashing subject here. I figure that updating the
version in Experimental won't hurt.

>  * mediaproxy (1.9.0 => 1.9.1)
>  * ohphone (1.4.5+20060204 => 1.14.4)
>  * opal (2.2.11~dfsg1 => 2.2.4) [but 2.2.11 should be the newest]

Kilian?

>  * kphone (but is at work how I see)
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> Packages with broken watch file:
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>  * ari (Bad hostname 'www.littlejohnconsulting.com')

Upstream is dead. Anybody else maintains it? (FreePBX? Trixbox?)
Or do we just purge it?

>  * radiusclient-ng (ftp://ftp.iptel.org/pub/radiusclient-ng/ failed: 500)

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