[arch-dev-public] Drop ekiga?
Hello, I would like to drop Ekiga. The software hasn't seen a release in years, the git master branch has some active development now and then, but a release for Ekiga5 is not near (though upstream stated the software itself is ready enough to release v5 a year ago). Alternative is to bump Ekiga to git master and hope it doesn't have too much bugs. Issue that gets fixed: one package less that depends on gconf Issue that remains: Ekiga still depends on deprecated and unmaintained versions of Opal/ptlib Regards, Jan de Groot
On Fri, 7 Jun 2019 at 16:47, <jan@jgc.homeip.net> wrote:
Hello,
I would like to drop Ekiga. The software hasn't seen a release in years, the git master branch has some active development now and then, but a release for Ekiga5 is not near (though upstream stated the software itself is ready enough to release v5 a year ago).
Alternative is to bump Ekiga to git master and hope it doesn't have too much bugs.
Issue that gets fixed: one package less that depends on gconf Issue that remains: Ekiga still depends on deprecated and unmaintained versions of Opal/ptlib
Regards, Jan de Groot
Since I actually use it but don't care enough to start maintaining it, I'd appreciate it if you could try bumping it first and then drop it if that turns out to break other stuff.
On Fri, 2019-06-07 at 16:55 +0200, Sven-Hendrik Haase via arch-dev- public wrote:
Since I actually use it but don't care enough to start maintaining it, I'd appreciate it if you could try bumping it first and then drop it if that turns out to break other stuff.
I tried to bump Ekiga to git master, progress so far: - needs "recent" (2016) versions of Opal and ptlib (2.16.3 prerelease from git) - current ptlib is patched for OpenSSL 1.1 support, upstream has no support for 1.1 and is not planning to support it either (ticket closed as notabug/wontfix) - SSL code in ptlib has changed a lot, patch no longer applies, applying by hand is not enough - OpenSuSE has a patch which is half-finished and doesn't compile Things are not looking good for Ekiga. I don't have any plans to revert to OpenSSL 1.0 to get this working.
On Sun, 9 Jun 2019 at 23:25, Jan de Groot <jan@jgc.homeip.net> wrote:
On Fri, 2019-06-07 at 16:55 +0200, Sven-Hendrik Haase via arch-dev- public wrote:
Since I actually use it but don't care enough to start maintaining it, I'd appreciate it if you could try bumping it first and then drop it if that turns out to break other stuff.
I tried to bump Ekiga to git master, progress so far: - needs "recent" (2016) versions of Opal and ptlib (2.16.3 prerelease from git) - current ptlib is patched for OpenSSL 1.1 support, upstream has no support for 1.1 and is not planning to support it either (ticket closed as notabug/wontfix) - SSL code in ptlib has changed a lot, patch no longer applies, applying by hand is not enough - OpenSuSE has a patch which is half-finished and doesn't compile
Things are not looking good for Ekiga. I don't have any plans to revert to OpenSSL 1.0 to get this working.
Well, drop it like it's hot.
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Jan de Groot
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jan＠jgc.homeip.net
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Sven-Hendrik Haase