Re: Ekiga is dead according to Gentoo

On 22/01/18 05:19, David Niklas wrote:
> A day of sadness has begun:
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/627868
> 
> No, there is nothing I can do about it. I've lost my laptop recently and
> have other things going on in my life.
> I though I would write this to you fellows in hopes that the devs might
> make a release because Gentoo does not drop something 99% of the time
> without good reason & ekiga will loose even more distros as they
> progress in the dev cycle.
> 
> - net-voip/ekiga-4.0.1-r1::gentoo (masked by: package.mask)
> /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask:
> # Pacho Ramos <[email protected]> (27 Dec 2017)
> # All Ekiga set is dead and broken for years, it relies on obsolete
> # dead/libs that are also old and broken and upstream looks to not release
> # newer ekiga ever. To keep this please go ahead and take care of it *and
> # all the dependencies it also needs*. See bugs #626176, #460458, #589276,
> # #638122, #641990, #633670, #624578, #600398, #627868.
> # Removal in a month.

Hi David,

Thank you for sharing with us these bad but predictable news.  I regret 
that people spend time to fix bugs in Ekiga, but me too I have too many 
things to do and cannot afford to spend much time on Ekiga anymore.

Some bugs are simple to fix, such as libresolv bug or 
https://bugs.gentoo.org/626176#c1, and I can certainly collect or do 
some fixes and commit them and make a new release 4.0.2 this week, if 
someone is willing to help.

But fixing all problems in Ekiga takes too much effort; for example 
updating to a new ptlib/opal version is unaffordable for me.  The cause 
is that new ptlib/opal 3.x releases make too many API changes for me to 
keep track with.  For example, the API for IM has changed, cf. 
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=651837, it takes many hours 
or a few tens of hours to make this change.  Moreover, new ptlib/opal 
releases create new bugs too (regressions), and it takes too much effort 
to find them, reproduce and inform their developers to fix them.

Kind regards,
-- 
Eugen
http://eugen.dedu.free.fr