Possible problems in your Debian packages

[Patrick Matthäi]

On 17.02.2010 20:08, Patrick Matthäi wrote:
> On 16.02.2010 13:40, Faidon Liambotis wrote:
>> Patrick Matthäi wrote:
> * asterisk-oh323
> - I think this should be removed from the archive, it is unmaintained by
> upstream since ~ 3 years and popcon is also very low: 37

Is anyone okay with removing it from the archive? Please speak up, if 
not or I will schedule the removal on Sunday the 21.

>
> * bayonne
> - The FTBFS is fixable, but it also looks dead on upstream side and just
> has got a popcon of 18

Is anyone okay with removing it from the archive? Please speak up, if 
not or I will schedule the removal on Sunday the 21.

>
> * pwlib-titan
> - Looks like there was some progress from msp in the past, what is the
> status?

Status?

>
> * ser
> - the mips FTBFS should be fixable with updated config.{guess,sub} files
> or overwriting the ccflags
> - file overwriting bug: add conflicts/replaces and remove the file from
> one package

Status?

>
> * srtp
> - it is only in unstable
> - low popcon: 11
> - unmaintained in debian and not very active upstream
> - 4 RC bugs, but a few are looking just unmaintained and already fixed.
> - on the last build of the package (april 2008!) it only failed on one
> release arch: ia64
> - I think this also could be dropped, as long as no other wants to
> maintain it

Is anyone okay with removing it from the archive? Please speak up, if 
not or I will schedule the removal on Sunday the 21.

>
> * iaxclient
> - okay the RC bug is realy a case for upstream. is he already aware of it?

Status?

>
> * libportaudio19
> - Okay bad RC bug and much installations. Upstream should fix it and if
> he won't do so, maybe just patch out the overwriting error handler?

Status?

>
> * siproxd
> - First it has to be checked, if the embedded libtool is realy used
> - if not, close the report
> - if yes, it should be simple to use the system wide one. Mostly it just
> needs the build dependency and a patch for the includes to use the
> system wide one

Status?

>
> * t38modem
> - 0.8.4 is in the archive, 1.0.0 on the upstream side, maybe the release
> already fixed this bug! It should be packaged..

Status?

>
> * yate
> - Okay zaptel isn't anymore in the archive.
> - yate in the archive has got the version 1.3.0
> - upstream has 2.1.x, maybe it does not depend on it anymore..
>

A fixed package was uploaded by msp today (NEW).

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