Possible problems in your Debian packages

[Mark Purcell]

On Thursday 18 February 2010 23:49:50 Patrick Matthäi wrote:
> 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.

Happy..

> > * 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.

Ok...

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

pwlib-titan/openh323-titan should go..

pwlib/ openh323 should remain for legacy

ptlib/ h323plus should be upgraded/ maintained which will also fix t38modem, openmcu, ...

> > * 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?

I'll have a look.

> > * 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.

Drop..

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

drop..

> > * 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?

Benjamin Drung <bdrung at ubuntu.com> has been doing some good work, 
we should give him commit access.

> > * 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?

I'll have a look.

> > * 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?

See ptlib/ h323plus above..

> > * 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).

 NEW :-)

Mark
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 198 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part.
URL: <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-voip-maintainers/attachments/20100218/517fdd88/attachment.pgp>