Fwd: Re: Bug#672656: libucommon-dev: /usr/lib/pkgconfig/ucommon.pc and commoncpp.pc missing from dev pkg

[David Sugar]

This discussion involves several issues that need to be discussed more
broadly with different Debian maintainers, particularly voip.  The
original thread is under bug 672656...

First, some time ago we migrated to GNU ccrtp 2.x and libzrtpcpp 2.x,
and in the process effectively have depreciated GNU Common C++ in favor
of GNU uCommon.  While Debian has the lastest ucommon library, and this
is now fixed to build the current ccrtp and zrtp releases, Debian is
maintaining much older and depreciated releases of ccrtp and zrtp
(1.3.x) which are not likely to see active maintenance.

Also, Twinkle has not been maintained by their upstream for some years
now, but is still in Debian.  Nor did Twinkle ever migrate from qt3. 
Should this really be carried in Wheezy?  I am simply suggesting that
sflphone may be a fine replacement for Twinkle for Wheezy, and is
currently actively maintained.

We can produce patches for Twinkle (1.4.2...the last release of it) to
build against the current ccrtp and zrtp releases if so desired.  We are
working on a patch for sflphone which we are in contact with the
upstream about as well.  I would like to see if we can get Debian up to
date with releases that we do currently maintain and use for all our
libraries, and ideally before freeze.

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Re: Bug#672656: libucommon-dev: /usr/lib/pkgconfig/ucommon.pc
and commoncpp.pc missing from dev pkg
Date: 	Mon, 14 May 2012 20:12:44 +0200
From: 	Werner Dittmann <Werner.Dittmann at t-online.de>
To: 	David Sugar <dyfet at gnutelephony.org>
CC: 	672656 at bugs.debian.org, Tristan Matthews
<tristan.matthews at savoirfairelinux.com>, Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk>,
Simon L'nu <simon.lnu at gmail.com>, Haakon Meland Eriksen
<haakon.eriksen at far.no>



Am 14.05.2012 18:27, schrieb David Sugar:
> This actually touches upon several packages and issues that I think we
> should at least try to resolve in debian before wheezy...
> 
> First, ccrtp and zrtp 2.0 or later require ucommon's commoncpp.
> 
> These are easy to build in Debian with ucommon commoncpp.  However,
> there are several packages that no doubt use zrtp and ccrtp.  The one I
> looked at was sflphone.  I included the debian control file and a patch
> I started on for supporting ucommon 5.2/ccrtp 2.x/zrtp 2.x.  It doesn't
> yet build correctly though, but is enough for Tristan to look at and see
> how this would effect building sflphone...
> 
> I am pretty sure Werner Dittmann has been using twinkle with ccrtp 2.x
> for awhile, and I hope could provide a patch for that as needed.

Please be aware the twinkle is not longer maintained, Michel de Boer stopped
development and maintanance some years ago (2yrs?) . Because of some
modifications in ucommon / commoncpp I patched a local copy on my system
to compile and run with ucommon/commoncpp, ccrtp 2.x and zrtp 2.x .

Thus I would recommend to phase out twinkle because no further development
and maintenance, AFAIK it uses older versions of Qt (3.x?), KDE 3.5 etc. Was
never enhanced to latest versions of Qt (4.x) and KDE 4.x

Regards,

Werner

> 
> On 05/12/2012 06:03 PM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>> On 12-05-12 at 11:03pm, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>>> On 12-05-12 at 04:06pm, David Sugar wrote:

<SNIP --- SNAP>

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