Re: [Linphone-users] Linphone 3.6.x Debian Packages?

[Ilya Melnikov]

25 june 2013, 19:47 -07:00 от Felix Lechner <address@hidden>:
> I have not packaged version 3.6 because the  Debian VOIP Team,
> of which I am not a part, started packaging Linphone for Debian.

So, you want to say that official PPA is dead? Very sad.

> Their packages eventually propagate to Ubuntu and render our PPA less 
> relevant.

And when it will be? In next versions of Ubuntu?

Packaging policy for most software in Debian/Ubuntu repositories does not 
provide
major version updates. So, now I use Ubuntu 12.04 - and Linphone version in 
12.04 is 3.3.2.
I am not going to upgrade to another Ubuntu version because 12.04 is LTS - it 
will be
supported five years. And all this five years Linphone version will be 3.3.2.

It is well that at least I have Linphone version 3.5 from PPA.
But absence of Linphone updates for five years makes me sad.

> If you have an urgent need for the latest version, you can use the official 
> Debian package
> (or one from our PPA) to generate a binary package for version 3.6.
> I would be happy to answer questions to that regard, if you have packaging 
> experience.

Ok, let's suppose that I will can build from sources version 3.6.
I'm not sure about that, but this is possible - I have experience in packages 
building.

But what about others? How many people will can build it? One of ten? One of 
hundred?
Lack of binary builds greatly reduces the number of users.
To make software popular - developer must make software available for users,
but not only for other developers.


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Ilya Melnikov