Bug#757582: closed by Bernhard Schmidt <berni at debian.org> (Closing bugs opened for old Gtk client)

[Frank Heckenbach]

> you have reported a bug against Linhone 3.12 or earlier. This version
> has been deprecated upstream for a couple of years

Well, I did report the bug many years ago, so ...

> We are sorry we could not deal with your bug report in time.

s/could not/did not choose to/ !

You certainly could have if you wanted to!

Honestly, I don't understand why such kind of bugs don't have
highest priority for you. After all, phone calls are a real-time,
real-world activity with real consequences, so any bugs that affect
this core function should by definition be much more important than
changing the GUI toolking or other look&feel changes:

- Not terminating the call may not only confuse the party on the
  other side, but possibly also run up costs if it's a
  paid-by-the-minute connection which may be left open for a long
  time when the user thinks they have terminated.

- Likewise, another bug I had back then (losing its configuration,
  especially sound config, so when picking up a call, I'd sometimes
  get no audio, because it would use the default sound device
  instead of the headset I had configured) had real-world
  consequences, since the caller would hear just silence and assume
  the call didn't work or I didn't pick up, because I can't just fix
  the configuration and pick up again. (I could do this for incoming
  calls, not for outgoing calls.) I don't know if this bug is still
  open (can't find the bug report anymore, probably also too old).

> Unfortunately, due to depending on Qt 5.12+ linphone-desktop cannot be
> provided in buster-backports. If you can, please try the new client on
> testing and report bugs. If the issue is still present please feel free
> to reopen your bug.

Meanwhile, I have a different router from a different internet
provider, and I'd first have to learn if it supports a SIP server,
and if so, how to set it up.

This would take me some time, but honestly, why should I invest the
time, just to be able to confirm that the bug probably still exists,
so you can ignore it for some more years!?

I'm a software developer too, and I know that most bugs don't come
into existence by themselves, but are errors made in the source
code. Likewise, bugs don't just disappear by themselves unless
fixed.

So if you didn't address this bug at any time, it's rather safe to
assume that it's still present.

At this point it's probably less effort if you take the old linphone
sources to reproduce the bug with them, than for me to set up a new
test environment.

Otherwise, please at least be so honest and mark it as "wontfix", so
other users know what they're getting.