Please remove tox repository in pkg-voip-team

Felix Salfelder felix at salfelder.org
Tue Sep 25 10:54:49 BST 2018


On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 11:24:42AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hi Felix,
> 
> it seems
> 
>    https://salsa.debian.org/pkg-voip-team/tox/
> 
> was never practically used since the package is maintained in DPMT[1].
> It makes sense to completely remove this unused repository to not
> confuse people who might stumble upon it.

Dear Andreas.

tox was meant to contain the library used by the tox project, a DHT
based softphone & instant messenger (not the DPMT thing). specifically,
uTox [0] (sitting next to it [1]) depends on this library.

i wasn't aware of the amiguity, when i played with this. unfortunately,
toxcore has never seen the release i was waiting for. i lost track, but
still have these packages installed on a couple of machines.

some other notes
- somehow a fork has appeared and sneaked in (libtoxcore2?).
- sadly, uTox (the client) does not seem to work with that (afa{ir,ct}).
- i have lost permissions to the repo since the move from alioth.
- there is GNU Ring now, why bother?

i'm not expecting that any of this is going to come back. but just in
case, would renaming to "toxcore" solve the issue for you? otherwise,
please delete it.

sorry for the noise
felix

[0] https://tox.chat
[1] https://salsa.debian.org/pkg-voip-team/utox/



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