[arch-dev-public] Drop ekiga?

Sven-Hendrik Haase svenstaro at gmail.com
Fri Jun 7 14:55:55 UTC 2019


On Fri, 7 Jun 2019 at 16:47, <jan at 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.


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