Re: [Ekiga-list] Ekiga test today

[Bret Busby <bret busby net>]

On Thu, 21 Feb 2013, Eugen Dedu wrote:

> Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2013 23:35:52
> From: Eugen Dedu <Eugen Dedu pu-pm univ-fcomte fr>
> Reply-To: Ekiga mailing list <ekiga-list gnome org>
> To: Ekiga mailing list <ekiga-list gnome org>
> Subject: Re: [Ekiga-list] Ekiga test today
>
> On 17/02/13 06:31, Bret Busby wrote:
> > Anyway, the latest version of Ekiga that shows in the Debian package
> > repository, for Debian 6, is the Ekiga v 3.2.7-2, that I mentioned above
> > as being installed on this computer, which is running Debian 6.0.x
> > amd64, on an Intel I3 CPU.
>
> I suggest you to install ekiga frome experimental 
> (http://packages.qa.debian.org/e/ekiga.html), if you know how to do that, or 
> otherwise wait for 1-2 months until it appears in unstable.
>
> --
> Eugen

Hello.

This probably appears "long-winded", but, please read all of it, to 
understand it.

Greg and I today  (23 February) had multiple unsuccessful attempts to 
try to connect using Ekiga.

All kinds of things were going wrong, and, for all of the call attempts, 
whilst (mostly) calls were showing as being connected, we could not 
either hear or see each other, and, for my part, in the video window, 
all I would see, would be a still image of me.

The only thing that we could get working, was the Chat window, but, that 
often showed me as offline or unavailable, when I was online and 
available.

Greg, from what I understand, started collecting images and making a 
record of what was occurring.

However, we are both running Ekiga 3.2.x for Linux.

The latest available version, is apparently, 4.0.1.

Thw web page at 
http://packages.debian.org/search?suite=all&searchon=names&keywords=ekiga 
(showing results for searchin for Ekiga packages for all versions of 
Debian, shows

"
Exact hits
Package ekiga
squeeze (stable) (gnome): H.323 and SIP compatible VoIP client
3.2.7-2: amd64 armel i386 ia64 mips mipsel powerpc s390 sparc
wheezy (testing) (gnome): H.323 and SIP compatible VoIP client
3.2.7-5+b1: amd64 armel armhf i386 ia64 kfreebsd-amd64 kfreebsd-i386 
mips mipsel powerpc s390 s390x sparc
sid (unstable) (gnome): H.323 and SIP compatible VoIP client
3.2.7-5+b1: alpha amd64 armel armhf i386 ia64 kfreebsd-amd64 
kfreebsd-i386 mips mipsel powerpc s390 s390x sparc
3.2.7-5 [debports]: sh4 sparc64
3.2.7-2+b1: hppa
2.0.11-2 [debports]: m68k
experimental (rc-buggy) (gnome): H.323 and SIP compatible VoIP client
4.0.0-1: amd64 armel armhf i386 ia64 kfreebsd-amd64 kfreebsd-i386 mips 
mipsel powerpc s390 s390x sparc
"

At http://ekiga.org/ is

"
Ekiga 4.0.1 [STABLE] available
 Submitted by Yannick Defais on Thu, 02/21/2013 - 01:01
Hello everyone,
This is the first update of the 4.0.0 stable release. It deals 
exclusively with bug fixing.
The most important change is fixing ALL known crashes and freezes, 
especially the long-standing freeze on quit on Windows. Add to this 
making H.323 with gatekeeper functional again, two registration fixes, 
and numerous other fixes here and there. There is also a security fix.
We encourage everyone to upgrade to this latest greatest version of 
ekiga.
The next release will be 4.0.2 or 4.2.0, targetted mainly at replacing 
obsolete technologies and fixing remaining registration and 
communication issues. After 4.2.0, we will switch to using v12 of 
ptlib/opal underlying libraries and will be able to provide the 
much-awaited communication encryption and IPv6 support.
 "

At http://wiki.ekiga.org/index.php/Installing_Ekiga_on_Linux is 
information showing that the latest version available for most Linux 
stable versions, is 3.2.7, and, for the latest Ubuntu LTS version 
(10.04) is 3.2.6.

The problems that Greg and I have been encountering, have probably been 
mostly resolved by the 4.0.0.1 version.

On the web page at http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/ekiga which 
relates to the version of Ekiga that is available for Debian stable 
(Debian Linux v6.0.x, that I am running, is shown

"
Package: ekiga (3.2.7-2)
"

and

"
Maintainers:
Kilian Krause (QA Page)
Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo (QA Page)
Eugen Dedu (QA Page)
Debian GNOME Maintainers (QA Page, Mail Archive)
Josselin Mouette (QA Page)
"

who I assume (but I am not certain of my understanding of this) are the 
maintainers of the specific version of the package, that is available 
for the particular version of Debian Linux.

So, my question is this; could the package maintainers for the version 
of Ekiga that is applicable to Debian stable (Debian Linux v6.0.x), 
please create and make available a Debian package (the applicable .deb 
file) of the latest stable version of Ekiga, for installation and 
updating of current installations of the Ekiga 3.2.x package, on the 
i386 and amd64 architectures? I name those two architectures, as I 
believe that they are by far the most common architectures, at present.

As far as I am aware, Debian pacxkages (the .deb files) can still be 
installed on Ubuntu (but, I cannot say that for certain, as it is a 
while since I have used Ubuntu), and, if that is correct, that should 
take care of both the Debian and Ubuntu distributions, for people who 
use the stable versions of each.

The thing is that the version of Ekiga that Greg and I have installed; 
3.2.x, is superseded, and, the problems that we are encountering, are 
probably fixed, in the  latest stable version of Ekiga, and, for us to 
continue to try to run the superseded software, and, report on problems 
that we encounter with the superseded soiftware, is probably redundant.

I do not know how much work is involved, in creating an installable 
Debian package that resolves dependencies and conflicts, or, equally, 
how complicated it is, but, I believe that the package maintainers would 
better know that, than me, and, would be more able  to do that, than I 
would be able to instal software from source or from binaries.

Thank you in anticipation.

--
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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