Bug#737760: provide: sip-router and recommend: turn-server

Daniel Pocock daniel at pocock.com.au
Thu Feb 6 13:13:25 UTC 2014


On 06/02/14 13:57, Victor Seva wrote:
> 2014-02-05 Daniel Pocock <daniel at pocock.com.au>:
>> Package: kamailio
>>
>> Consider adding some variation of the following to the control file:
>>
>> Recommends: stun-server | turn-server
> I'm going to add this to Suggests. I don't think this relation belongs
> to Recommends. You can use the software without any of that. From [0]
>
> Suggests:
>
> This is used to declare that one package may be more useful with one
> or more others. Using this field tells the packaging system and the
> user that the listed packages are related to this one and can perhaps
> enhance its usefulness, but that installing this one without them is
> perfectly reasonable.
>
> Recommends
>
> This declares a strong, but not absolute, dependency.


For WebRTC users, ICE is mandatory and therefore TURN becomes significant

However, not everybody uses it for WebRTC, so it is really up to you


>
> The Recommends field should list packages that would be found together
> with this one in all but unusual installations.
>
>> Provides: sip-router
> Ok.

I wonder if we should declare sip-websocket-server or something like
that too?  Not all sip-router packages will provide WebSocket support



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