ptlib transition (was: libdc1394 should be removed (transition blocker 516826)

[Mark Purcell]

On Thursday 19 March 2009 07:35:55 Eugen Dedu wrote:
> The wait is finished, please upload it...

Debian Release,

I am proposing to upload ptlib 2.6.1 to unstable which will start a 
transition.  All elements of the transition are contained within the pkg-voip 
team with the exception of ekiga, which needs ptlib > 2.x to build, so I 
suspect they are supportive of this transition to experimental.

I propose ptlib 2.6.1 will supply the binary package libpt-dev with Provides: 
libpt-1.11.2-dev, libpt-2.4.2-dev for backwards compatibility (to an extent). 
This is different to how ptlib has been provisioned previously in Debian and 
will cause some transition pain for the voip team, but the end state will be 
worthwhile as we will be back on upstream trunk with the current development 
roadmap. The use of a clean libpt-dev package (without soname) is also in line 
with current direction from the release team as it provides for much smoother 
transition and binNMU ability for rdepends.

This upload will also remove the dependency links with lib1394 and we have 
coordinated with the 1394 team.

A similar but related transition is also required for the upstream change with 
libopenh323 -> h323plus.

We are currently maintaining too many versions of ptlib in Debian:

ptlib (2.4.2-3) experimental.

Other historic versions include:

pwlib-titan (1.11.2-3) - was really a upstream ptlib but we didn't rename
pwlib (1.10.10-3) - was really a upstream ptlib but we didn't rename

Historic libs should be depreciated but we still have a few rdepends:

$ apt-cache rdepends libpt2.4.2
libpt2.4.2
Reverse Depends:
  simpleopal
  libpt2.4.2-plugins-v4l2
  libpt2.4.2-plugins-v4l
  libpt2.4.2-plugins-oss
  libpt2.4.2-plugins-dc
  libpt2.4.2-plugins-avc
  libpt2.4.2-plugins-alsa
  libpt2.4.2-dev
  libpt2.4.2-dbg
  libopal3.4.2
  ekiga

$ apt-cache rdepends libpt-1.10.10
libpt-1.10.10
Reverse Depends:
 |yate-openh323
  simpleopal
  simph323
  pstngw
  openam
  ohphone-basic
  ohphone
  libpt-dev
  libpt-1.10.10-dbg
  libopenh323-1.18.0-develop
  libopenh323-1.18.0
  libopal-2.2-develop
  libopal-2.2
  gnugk
  ekiga
  asterisk-oh323
  asterisk-h323

$ apt-cache rdepends libpt-1.11.2
libpt-1.11.2
Reverse Depends:
 |t38modem
  simph323-titan
  openmcu
  libpt-1.11.2-dev
  libpt-1.11.2-dbg
  libopenh323-1.19.1-develop
  libopenh323-1.19.1

Mark
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