Re: [Linphone-users] Linphone 3.6.1 for Ubuntu (Felix Lechner)

[John Ervin]

Regardless, Most people I know (not corporate type users) stay current, and like I said, I didn't find it useless.  It's useful for the users in my particular group. 

I think that there should be a verson useable for each version of Ubuntu, at least going forward.   For instance, in October, I will probably upgrade to 13.10 within days of when it comes out and I would like to continue to use Linphone.  So, the PPA might become useless to me at that time.  I believe that there are beta or daily builds of 13.10 out there already.

On 07/11/2013 09:03 PM, Ilya Melnikov wrote:

11 july 2013, 17:17 -07:00 от Felix Lechner <address@hidden>:

The unmet dependencies are the problem.
In rare cases, a newer library can even break packages you have already installed.
As an example, that can mean you get to pick between installing the new Linphone
or the version of KDE that comes with your release.

What says Linphone developers about it? Is there really need to use newest library versions?
Is there really need to use libraries which can't be installed on one of popular modern Linux distribution
released only one year ago?

May be rename Linphone to WinMacPhone? Windows and Mac users has support, unlike Linux users.
Linux users has no bugfixes and new features updates.

Frequently those packages have dependencies of their own that are not available for your release.

So it must be build in PPA. This is common practice of all other developers.


11 july 2013, 7:48 -04:00 от John Ervin <address@hidden>:

I didn't find it useless.  -jfe-

Because you are using 13.04 "Raring" release. But "Raring" is 9-month-live release. This is "Ubuntu testing release".
And many (may be even most) of people are using Ubuntu LTS releases ("Ubuntu stable"), which are 5-year supported.
So main task is backporting stable Linphone versions to LTS. Backporting to testing is useless.


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