On 12/22/2016 01:52 PM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Excerpts from Victor Seva's message of December 22, 2016 10:44 am: >> I'm working on packaging janus WebRTC gateway [0] but it depends >> on a newer version of srtp. I notice that some work was done [1] >> last year in experimental. Is there a plan to upload that version >> to unstable before the stretch freeze? > > Thanks for nudging about this - and thanks for packaging Janus!!
Thanks to my employer, sipwise! > What is needed is for someone to test that all reverse dependencies work > when linking against the 1.5 release. > > I have not yet found time to look into that - much appreciated if you > could help with that. I will try to help on that. I will keep you posted. > "build-rdeps libsrtp0-dev" gives the following: > > asterisk > chromium-browser > ekiga > gst-plugins-bad1.0 > kopete > opal > pjproject > reconserver > resiprocate > ring > t38modem > > I suspect that chromium-browser does not really use libsrtp, but instead > uses an embedded slight fork. My suspicion is backed by > chromium-browser not listed in "apt-cache showpkg libsrtp0" (but another > explanation for that might be that it uses static linking). Similar > might be the case for reciprocate, ring and ekiga which lack binary > dependency too. > > When all reverse dependencies have been verified to work, we can > consider if we feel this is not a "major library transition" (because > those were frozen since primo december). > > Alternatively, I can try finish the packaging of libsrtp2 as a separate > source package - and we can hope that ftpmaster succeed in approving > that in the very few days left before freeze of NEW queue. > > All in all, chances are slim but not yet zero. But then, chances are > even slimmer for you to succeed in packaging janus in time for the NEW > queue freeze: I strongly recommend that you release your package without > srtp support at first, if at all possible - to get the ftpmasters > working on approval of the source while you wait for ways to get usable > libsrtp in the archive! Let's try to work to get Janus packaged, no matter if it gets into stretch or not Cheers, Victor
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