Bug#531728: asterisk: console video support

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Hi Tzafrir,

[replying (again) via bugreport rather than (only) mailinglist]

Quoting Tzafrir Cohen (2014-08-07 16:39:32)
> On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 03:12:01AM +0200, Faidon Liambotis wrote:
>> Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>>> Asterisk 1.6 supports video on console channel if linked against 
>>> FFmpeg libraries.  Unfortunately the autoconf code does not detect 
>>> the location of those libraries as packaged by Debian, and the 
>>> console code expects old organisation of header files.

Attached are the patches (effectively identical but) unfuzzed against 
HEAD og git branch.


>> I don't feel very good about linking against another big library, 
>> much more without proper upstream support. I haven't made up my mind 
>> yet, though, I'll give it a try.
>
> I'm slightly less uncomfortable with linking it with a big library, 
> provided it is in a separate subpackage.
>
> Note that the console package conflicts with chan_alsa and chan_oss 
> and maybe it makes sense to move it to a subpackage due to this 
> conflict anyway.

If you mean to provide console-related modules in a separate binary 
package, then I agree that makes good sense.  I suggest to then 
additionally build-depend on libgtk2.0-dev, as I suspect (but haven't 
checked) that to be console-related as well.


 - Jonas

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