Bug#892325: linphone: please package linphone 4.0

[Bernhard Schmidt]

On 08.03.2018 12:41, Dr. Tobias Quathamer wrote:
> Am 08.03.2018 um 12:23 schrieb Bernhard Schmidt:
>> Linphone(-desktop) 4.0 is an updated QT GUI client using liblinphone
>> 3.12. I have started a package that builds fine, but does need some
>> polishing. I intend to put this into salsa (gitlab) soon, but the actual
>> upload can only happen after we got linphone 3.12 into unstable.
> 
> Hi Bernhard,
> 
> I had a brief look at linphone 4 as well, but did not start serious
> packaging work. However, I thought that linphone 4 (with the Qt
> frontend) does need liblinphone as well, which in turn gets built from
> linphone 3.12.
> 
> If this is the case, wouldn't we need a whole new package for
> linphone 4? I.e. one package for linphone 3 which provides the library
> and one for linphone 4, providing the new GUI? After all, upstream has
> the Qt frontend in a separate git repository as well (linphone-desktop).

Correct. linphone-desktop needs liblinphone.

In the end I think we should wait for the unstable migration. Then we
can package linphone-desktop as a seperate source package, either
replacing /usr/bin/linphone (so we need to drop building the GTK client
from src:linphone) or installing under a new binary name. Since the GTK
client is obviously deprecated I'd favor dropping it.

But I don't think we should make the unstable migration even more
complicated by adding linphone-desktop to experimental now.

Bernhard