Bug#1083044: baresip: consider disabling DirectFB support

[Chris Hofstaedtler]

Hi baresip Maintainers,

have you seen this bug?

On Mon, Sep 30, 2024 at 12:50:41PM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
> Usertags: directfb
> Control: block 1083037 by -1
> 
> directfb has been orphaned in Debian since 2018 and is effectively
> unmaintained.
> 
> If DirectFB support is considered to be an essential part of baresip,
> please adopt the directfb package (possibly in collaboration with the
> maintainers of other packages that depend on it) and fix its RC bugs.
> 
> Or, if the baresip maintainers are not interested in adopting directfb,
> please consider disabling the DirectFB backend and removing the
> build-dependency. If I'm reading correctly, there is already support in
> the build system for building without directfb, for non-Linux ports.

Is there progress / can we help you somehow?

Best,
Chris