Re: [Ekiga-devel-list] New debian snapshots

[Eugen Dedu <Eugen Dedu pu-pm univ-fcomte fr>]

Hi,

thomas schorpp wrote:
> Luca Capello schrieb:
> > Hi!
> >
> > No flame, please, I'm looking for information.

On the contrary, I am glad that people are using it and make remarks!

> > On Tue, 09 Sep 2008 10:38:37 +0200, Eugen Dedu wrote:
> > > New debian snapshots are available.  The name of packages has been
> > > changed.  Install the newest ekiga and dependencies with:
> > > apt-get install ekiga
> >
> > What's the rationale for this change?  This doesn't allow anymore
> > installing *both* ekiga stable and -snapshot.

1. As you found out, it's because I spent much time to modify 
ptlib/opal/ekiga for inclusion in debian.  Now, I am too tired to rename 
all the packages to -snapshot and maintain two package naming (well, I 
need to create a program to do tat automatically).

2. But, as you probably know, ekiga will release 3.0 very soon (1-2 
weeks), so I don't think it's a real issue, ekiga is sufficiently stable 
to be used regularly.

3. This situation is the same as pushing in debian/experimental the new 
ptlib/opal/ekiga (same naming), which is what happens sometimes (for ex. 
iceweasel in beta status).

4. Anyway, I think it was by the way not possible to have both ekiga and 
ekiga-snapshot on a system.  For ex., both contained /usr/bin/ekiga and 
user configuration was the same (hence conflicts).

> more worse, won't allow upgrade at all due to unfixed(?) gconf issue(s) 
> not handled by the package's installer.

The only think I am aware of is the audio codecs, there might be 
problems on upgrading.  You can simply check them on.

> > According to [1], I understand this as your first step into
> > co-maintainership of ekiga and its rdepends, with the result of new
> > ekiga packages in Debian experimental.

Indeed, thanks for looking at.  Note that ptlib has already been pushed 
in debian new queue!  See http://ftp-master.debian.org/new.html

> > However, will snapshots.e.n stop providing snapshot packages after the
> > new ekiga will enter Debian?  I don't think this is the desired
> > solution, which means that the package should be (again) renamed to
> > -snapshot.

You're right for the future.  As soon as ekiga will release 3.0, I will 
rename all the packages to -snapshot.

--
Eugen