Any ideas why Sofia SIP is not in Debian ?

[George Danchev]

On Sunday 11 June 2006 02:27, Kilian Krause wrote:
> George,
>
> > Anyone has any idea why Sofia SIP [1] is not presently in Debian ?
>
> because nobody did it? ;)
>
> > I guess there could be ant DFSG issues, but did not find the reasons why
> > the code is under LGPL. Otherwise it seems we should package that piece
> > of software. There is already a debian directory with maintainer scripts
> > in sourceforge cvs tree of the project we can start with or invite the
> > developer(s) to use our svn repository for packaging purposes. Any
> > thoughts ?
>
> well, either that, or just dump that debian dir and do our own one
> (probably on the basis that is there already).
>
> As you got SVN access, feel free to import whatever you see fit. Yet to
> keep debian versions independant from upstream, we shouldn't rely on
> their debian/ dir, so either it's moved to our SVN from upstream or we
> just keep it to ourselves and package with a repackaged tarball with the
> upstream debian/ dir removed and replaced.

I fully agree with you ! What follows is a couple of my questions which has 
been answer by upstream. I see no worries. I pointed them to our pkg-voip 
README, and they probably will pop-up soon with their (or at least one) 
alioth accounts. I think we should gladly accept that help in co-maintenaning 
Sofia-SIP library and friends. I'll work on that packaing effort also.

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From: Kai.Vehmanen at nokia dot com
>       I'm packaging some stuff for Debian (still in the NM 
>queue) and I'd like to see your software officially packaged 
>for Debian. Although I'm not an expert your source code looks 
>very clean and beautiful and deserves to be there.

sounds great! I'm using Debian myself, and would very much like to see
Sofia-SIP in Debian! 

>* What is the master SCM repository from which you make your 
>releases ? Is that the CVS at SF or the darcs one ?

Due to recent problem with SF CVS, we've now moved to our own 
darcs tree at:

- http://sofia-sip.org/repos/sofia-sip/

We are still putting releases to the SF CVS tree as well, but assuming
darcs continues
to work well, we'll probably move to darcs altogether.

>* What is the reason to use LGPL instead of GPL ?

There were a couple of reasons: We wanted to reach as many developers as

possible and not limit to only free software developers at this point
(for us, promoting SIP as a protocol is also important). As another reason, 
we're working closely with Gnome/freedesktop projects like Farsight, 
Telepathy and gstreamer which are LGPL licensed - for users of these 
frameworks, it's easier if all the core libraries have similar licensing 
terms.
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