On Wed, 1 Apr 2020 19:27:37 +0300 Andrei POPESCU <andreimpope...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mi, 01 apr 20, 08:58:16, Celejar wrote: > > On Wed, 1 Apr 2020 03:57:17 +0000 > > "Russell L. Harris" <russ...@rlharris.org> wrote: > > > > > server. And Jitsi is open source. What more could you ask? > > > > I am indeed strongly tempted to try that. I suppose I'm just spoiled by > > Debian - I almost always install stuff from the repos, and I tend to > > assume (probably somewhat unreasonably) that if something isn't there, > > there's a good reason for it, and that installing manually from > > upstream is going to be more trouble than it's worth (at least for me > > with my limited sysadmin skills). I acknowledge that this is an overly > > narrow and pessimistic attitude ... > > On a quick research I couldn't find any particular reason why the > package is not available also from Debian repositories. > > There used to be a package maintained by two persons with @jitsi.org > e-mail addresses. At some point they just stopped uploading it, though > one of those persons is still maintaining the upstream packages. > > It could be a manpower issue and/or upstream wants more flexibility than > allowed by Debian policies. > > E.g. in many cases upstream projects don't have a "stable", "long term > support", "ESR", etc. branch (they may have valid reasons for that). > This makes it very difficult to provide security support for the package > in Debian. All good points - thanks. Celejar
