Bug#688855: linphone: not compiled with vp8 video codec

[Guillaume BERAUDO]

Mark,


Thank you for uploading Linphone-vp8 to experimental.
I know that the Wheezy freeze is ongoing and I am glad that you
accepted to move Linphone forward.

Once a package enter experimental, what is the policy to get it out to
sid? Is there some public discussion? Build statuses?

For example, I would like to understand why the libzrtpcpp 2.1.1
is blocked in experimental. If there is something to test or fix I may
help if I know about it. The only info I could find is:
http://packages.qa.debian.org/libz/libzrtpcpp.html

Guillaume



Le Sun, 30 Sep 2012 07:57:55 +1000,
Mark Purcell <mark at purcell.id.au> a écrit :

> severity 688855 normal
> thanks
> 
> On Wed, 26 Sep 2012 20:59:34 Guillaume BERAUDO wrote:
> > Linphone supports naively the vp8 video codec.
> > However, the debian/control file doesn't depend on libvpx-dev.
> > 
> > The vp8 codec is quickly replacing theora as the common patent free
> > video codec for voip.
> > 
> > This is serious, the lack of support in Wheezy would make Linphone
> > irrelevant for the next few years.
> 
> Guillaume,
> 
> I have changed the severity of your report as linphone functions
> correctly and vp8 just provides additional functionally.  I do agree
> your report is a good idea and will be uploading a package to
> experimental shortly.
> 
> Given the late stage in the release cycle, I doubt such a change
> would be accepted as it doesn't a key issue from the freeze policy:
> http://release.debian.org/wheezy/freeze_policy.html
> 
> Mark