Bug#743474: linphone: New upstream version available

[Bernhard Schmidt]

Am 09.07.2017 um 05:56 schrieb Johannes Schauer:

Hi everyone,

> The current status of packaging the new linphone version can be found in this
> thread on the pkg-voip mailing list:
> 
> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-voip-maintainers/2017-April/030495.html
> 
> Essentially, the big blocker is, that three packages that the new linphone
> version requires are not in Debian yet and have to go through NEW first.
> 
> More specifically the dependency situation presents itself as this:
> 
> https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-voip/linphone.git/tree/debian/README.source
> 
> But Bernhard Schmidt already started uploading bctoolbox (the most fundamental
> new package) to NEW:
> 
> https://ftp-master.debian.org/new/bctoolbox_0.5.1-1.html

I briefly had a look at all these things again.

Right now it looks like you need quite a lot of updated minor updates.

- Current ortp Debian git repo FTBFS, most likely due to gcc-7
- Last upstream version works, but needs bctoolbox 0.6.0 to build (in
the archive since yesterday)
- Same thing for most other packages in the dependency chain (bzrtp,
mediatoolbox, ...) ... almost all of them FTBFS with gcc-7, the current
upstream versions work but need the newer build-deps as well
- bzrtp current upstream migrates from XML to SQlite, dropping symbols
but not bumping SOVERSION
- bzrtp is already in the archive, so this is a transition that somehow
needs to be handled
- linphone 3.11 again FTBFSes, linphone 3.12 builds but needs two
additional belledone libraries packaged (belr and belcard)
- linphone 3.12 deprecates the old GTK2 GUI that was built from
src:linphone, you can still enable it with a CMake flag but it fails to
build (missing some gitversion.h, so likely easy to patch)
- the new GUI client (linphone-desktop 4, using Qt5) needs to be
packaged/tested as well

I can certainly help here, but I definitely cannot do this all alone
(especially since I don't regularly use SIP desktop clients). Since
Daniel Gnoutcheff dropped work in linphone, can anyone else help?

Bernhard