Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (505 mails)

[Rob OpenSuSE <rob.opensuse.linux@xxxxxxxxx>]

Have searched for some discussion of this on list, but didn't turn
anything up recent (only things imply linphone version in distro,
tends to be stale).

The scoop as I see it is :

OS 11.4 / Factory
kopete 4.6 rpm - requires linphone 3.3, because of bundled lib
libmediastreamer.so.0

Packman provides
linphone 3.4, libmediastramer unbundled
libmediastreamer (Mediastreamer 2?) provides libmediastreamer.so.1
(not sure if the .so.1 version reflects lib API change)

This means zypper objects to having both Packman linphone & kopete on
system, in general Packman Multi-media is desired to avoid necessary
distro codec restrictions.

Tumbleweed & Factory, offer kopete 4.6.5 & linphone 3.3 but no
unbundled lib libmediastramer

In general unbundling libraries seems like a good idea to avoid
unwanted application dependency cycles, and Packman has built upgraded
linphone & libmediastreamer packages, so that part ought not to be
problematic.  Fedora have a "No Bundling" policy, presumably it's
discouraged in openSUSE for technical software engineering reasons
(http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:No_Bundled_Libraries#Why_no_Bundled_Libraries
explains).

May be there's problems porting kopete to new  version of
libmediastreamer, or is it simply that some labour is required to
update the linphone & libmediastramer packages?  Anyone looked at
this?  It seems like an issue that ought to be sorted for 12.1.
Whilst I'd be happy to try and build the package updates, I'm not the
best person as currently I have NEVER used kopete or linphone nor
submitted packages to Factory.

Suggestions?  Does it help to look into building kopete against
updated linphone & libmediastreamer?

Rob
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