Re: [Linphone-users] Linphone 3.10 and Ubuntu Linux and Debian Linux

[Bret Busby]

On 08/09/2016, J G Miller <address@hidden> wrote:
> At 15:03h, on Wednesday, September 07, 2016,
> in message
> <address@hidden>,
> on the subject of "Re: [Linphone-users] Linphone 3.10 and Ubuntu Linux and
> Debian Linux",
> Sandrine Avakian wrote -
>
>  > We reached out to debian maintainers to know if they were interested in
> updating
>  > linphone packages. We are currently waiting for their reply.
>
> Are you familiar with the Debian model of updating packages?
>
> When a new source version of a Debian package becomes available, it gets
> built
> and put into the instable distribution "sid" (still in development)of Debian
> -- this is the
> most volatile version which is continually in a state of flux.
>
> After a reasonable amount of time has passed and nothing bad has happened,
> that version
> then gets promoted to the "testing" distribution (currently named
> "stretch").
>
> When the Debian distribution manager considers it appropriate for a new
> version of
> the main stable Debian distribution to be produced (about every one to two
> years),
> a freeze is put on the "testing" distribution (no new updates allowed except
> for
> critical bug and security fixes) followed by about 3-6 months of bug
> squashing.
> Only if all critical or serious or security bugs have been eliminated is
> that
> version of "testing" then used to replace the "stable" as a new version of
> stable.
>
> Thus when a new version of software is released it may take 1 to 2 years for
> it to
> eventually arrive in the stable distribution.  The stable distribution only
> gets
> critical bugs and security updates, not new versions of software.
>
> Ubuntu LTS releases are based on Debian testing and intermediate releases on
> Debian sid.
>
> So do not expect the now latest version of linphone to appear in either
> Debian stable or
> the current Ubuntu LTS (16.04).
>
> If users of linphone want the latest version, they should either compile it
> themselves
> from source or switch to a bleeding edge rolling release distribution of
> GNU/Linux
> and suffer the instability problems that are inherent to htem.
>
> And remember that linphone relies on many libraries which all have to be of
> the
> appropriate updated version, so the problem of updating is no small matter.
>

Okay; given that Ubuntu 16.10 is expected to be released next month,
what about inclusion of Linphone 3.10.x in that release?

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Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia

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