Outdated Linphone packets

[Bernhard Schmidt]

Am 24.07.19 um 17:02 schrieb Elisa Nectoux:

Hi Elisa,

> Thank you. I have just replied to the bug as you suggested!
> 
> It would be really nice if we could help Debian’s team package the
> latest version of Linphone. The app has been deeply improved since 3.X.

As far as I can see, the Qt GUI (Linphone 4.x) is missing. We
deliberately dropped it from the Buster release because it was shortly
before the freeze and it didn't work well at that time.

As far as I unterstand it is just a new GUI based on liblinphone and the
whole stack, which, as far as I can tell, is up to date with the latest
released version. Which brings me to the reason we haven't really
updated a lot of Linphone lately, Belledonne does not seem to do
releases of the linphone stack. Most of them have been released in 2017,
liblinphone is still at 3.12.0  from July 2017, but I think there are
literally thousands of commits on top of it in master. Same for almost
all other projects in the stack.

We even had to backport a few commits from git to fix compiler issues.

We much rather package releases than some random git snapshots. We don't
use it that much, so we don't have any insight about the stability of
git master of a particular day. So please make a set of releases that
work well together, which would help us to update the packages in Debian.

Bernhard