Heads up: removing OpenSER from Debian

[Julien BLACHE]

Henning Westerholt <henning.westerholt at 1und1.de> wrote:

Hi Henning,

> i wrote you some month ago a mail about the openser maintenance, but this got 
> probably lost somehow. Nevertheless, i'm interested in providing a debian 
> package for kamailio as well.

Woops, I think I never got this mail indeed.

> I've experience in debian package building, as i already maintain voip debs 
> here in house, but don't know how to submit them for inclusion into the debian 
> repository. Do you can perhaps provide me some pointers for this?

You need to file ITP bugs, then if you wish you can be added to
pkg-voip (if you aren't already) and add your packaging to the
SVN. From there on, someone (me included) in the team should be able
to sponsor your packages. After that you can also apply to become a
Debian Maintainer (DM) and upload your packages by yourself (this is
the lightweight DD status - you can apply to become Debian Developer
at the same time or after that).

For ITPs and other procedures, see the Developer's reference at
<http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/> (5.1 New Packages
covers ITPs).

Basically, that's

 $ reportbug wnpp

Choose ITP, fill in the template, save, send, note the bug # and close
it in the changelog for your first upload to the archive.

>> If at all possible, please handle the transition from OpenSER to
>> OpenSIPS with appropriate Conflicts/Replaces and meta-packages.
>
> Ok, i'll keep this in mind too.

For Kamailio, I started to convert the OpenSER packaging in the
pkg-voip SVN. There's still some work to do but you can start from
there (if they kept the same build system, that shouldn't be too
hard).

The transition from openser to kamailio has some tricky aspects. If
the config files are still compatible, it'd be nice if the kamailio
packages could rename them and use them.

If there's anything I can help with, just ask. I think I still
remember how it all works =)

Be prepared to fix obscur portability bugs, maybe you remember my
patches from back then :)

JB.

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