Help with linphone bugs for wheezy

[Guillaume BERAUDO]

Hi,


I would like to help fixing bugs on Linphone for wheezy but I am a bit
confused on the Debian procedures. Your kind patience and guidance will
be greatly appreciated.


Note that the bugs below are mostly absent from the bugtracker.


First, let start with the outstanding issues:

- No ZRTP support
Fix: Libzrtpcpp 2.1.2 should be unblocked from experimental.
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=678975
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=671815
Question: what is the status of the unblocking? Where one find
  information about it?


- No TLS support
Fix: Libexosip2 should be built with SSL support.
Why: improved security (TLS encrypts sip packets); improve reliability
  (prevent router modification of sip packets).
Question: why having declared a conflict in libexosip control file?
  Is it still relevant?


- No vp8 video
Fix: Add libvpx-dev to build dependencies.
Why: nowadays, Vp8 is the common video codec. It is a must have for
  interoperability.



Then, the annoyances:

- TLS transport is proposed by Linphone even if exosip is not compiled
  with SSL.
 Fix: to be done


- build dependency on automake 9
Fix: remove dependence to this specific old automake


- notification support
Fix: add libnotify-dev to build dependencies





What I have done:

I installed pbuilder and compiled the packages with it.
The resulting .debs were installed on my wheezy system.

I used dch to create a new changelog entry then debdiff. However I get
really long and boring diff, including "configure" and automake stuff.
Is there a way to get ride of this? It also pollutes my quilt patches
and prevent pbuilder for building. I had a look
to /usr/share/doc/autotools-dev/README.Debian.gz but couldn't
understand what to do.




From nowon, what should I do:

- Should I open a bug report for each of the above issues?

- Should I send my fatty debdiff?




Waiting for your advices and answers,


Guillaume Beraudo