Bug#153564: ohphone Still valid?

[Eugen Dedu]

Mark Purcell wrote:
> On Monday 27 April 2009 00:17:57 Eugen Dedu wrote:
>> ptlib fixes many bugs with each release (I hope it is better and better
>> :o)).  This bug should be fixed by upstream, so I want to inform them
>> about it.
> 
> Hi Eugen,
> 
> ohphone was developed as a component of openh323.
> 
> openh323 seems to of forked upstream into h323plus which provides the 
> replacement for the openh323 applications:
> 
> http://www.h323plus.org/source/
> 
> Apps such as asterisk/ gnugk et al seems to be either able to build with the 
> older openh323/ptlib (1.10.10) combination or the newer (but still old) 
> h323plus/ptlib (2.0.1) combination. Ideally these apps would support opal 
> rather than running on with h323plus.
> 
> I haven't had any joy getting h323plus build with ptlib (2.6.x). :-(
> 
> My plan for migration is to get ptlib (2.0.1) included in debian (pkg-
> voip/ptlib/branches/ptlib-2.0.1) and h323plus, which will allow us to retire 
> ptlib (1.10.10), ptlib-titan (1.11) & openh323.
> 
> This will allow pkg-voip to upgrade openmcu, simph323, openam, and t38modem to 
> their 2008 baselines.

Are these applications worth the effort to be packaged/updated if even 
upstream abandoned them one year ago?  Let them rest in peace :o)

People with lenny will use them almost 2 years from now on (until next 
stable).  People with testing/unstable will refuse to remove them upon 
upgrading.

-- 
Eugen