Bug#1008840: linphone: Recording does not work due to lack of mkv support

[Dennis Filder]

X-Debbugs-CC: Rainer Dorsch <ml at bokomoko.de>

On Sat, Apr 02, 2022 at 04:23:34PM +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote:

> as a side note, even though reportbug reports that there is a newer
> version of linphone (4.4.21-2) for stable, I cannot install it. apt
> does not find it, rmadison has even two entries:
>
> rd at h370:~$ apt-cache policy linphone
> linphone:
>   Installiert:           4.2.5-3
>   Installationskandidat: 4.2.5-3
>   Versionstabelle:
>  *** 4.2.5-3 500
>         500 http://ftp-stud.hs-esslingen.de/debian bullseye/main amd64 Packages
>         500 http://ftp-stud.hs-esslingen.de/debian bullseye/main i386 Packages
>         100 http://deb.debian.org/debian sid/main amd64 Packages
>         100 http://deb.debian.org/debian sid/main i386 Packages
>         105 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm/main amd64 Packages
>         105 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm/main i386 Packages
>         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
> rd at h370:~$ rmadison linphone
> linphone   | 3.6.1-2.4     | oldoldoldstable | source
> linphone   | 3.6.1-2.4+b1  | oldoldoldstable | amd64, armel, armhf, i386
> linphone   | 3.6.1-3       | oldoldstable    | source, amd64, arm64, armel, armhf, i386, mips, mips64el, mipsel, ppc64el, s390x
> linphone   | 3.12.0-3      | oldstable       | source, amd64, arm64, armel, armhf, i386, mips, mips64el, mipsel, ppc64el, s390x
> linphone   | 4.2.5-3       | stable          | all
> linphone   | 4.2.5-3       | testing         | all
> linphone   | 4.2.5-3       | unstable        | all
> linphone   | 4.4.21-2      | stable          | source
> linphone   | 4.4.21-2      | testing         | source
> linphone   | 4.4.21-2      | unstable        | source
> linphone   | 4.4.21-2      | unstable-debug  | source

This is most likely due to a package renaming.  Can you try running?:

  rmadison -S linphone

The CLI version is now in "linphone-cli" and the Qt version (which was
formerly in "linphone") is now in "linphone-desktop".  "linphone" from
now on only exists as a source package name.  But the 4.2.5-3
"linphone" transitional package should still show up under bullseye.
The versioning is confusing because the desktop app and the core
libraries (of which the CLI version is a component) are not versioned
according to the same scheme.

> which suggests that linphone was built w/o mkv support.
>
> Can you confirm that?

Yes.  Version 4.3.2 of linphone-desktop and its dependencies have been
packaged already in Salsa, are waiting for an upload and are planned
to ship with Matroska support.

> Previously the recording were in wav format. Is it possible to
> switch back to wav, if mkv is troublesome?

You can try to record in WAV by supplying a file name that ends in
".wav".  If that does not work then I don't know what can be done
besides waiting.

Regards.