Please remove tox repository in pkg-voip-team

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Felix,

On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 11:54:49AM +0200, Felix Salfelder wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 11:24:42AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> > Hi Felix,
> > 
> > it seems
> > 
> >    https://salsa.debian.org/pkg-voip-team/tox/
> > 
> > was never practically used since the package is maintained in DPMT[1].
> > It makes sense to completely remove this unused repository to not
> > confuse people who might stumble upon it.
> 
> tox was meant to contain the library used by the tox project, a DHT
> based softphone & instant messenger (not the DPMT thing). specifically,
> uTox [0] (sitting next to it [1]) depends on this library.
> 
> i wasn't aware of the amiguity, when i played with this. unfortunately,
> toxcore has never seen the release i was waiting for. i lost track, but
> still have these packages installed on a couple of machines.
> 
> some other notes
> - somehow a fork has appeared and sneaked in (libtoxcore2?).
> - sadly, uTox (the client) does not seem to work with that (afa{ir,ct}).
> - i have lost permissions to the repo since the move from alioth.
> - there is GNU Ring now, why bother?
> 
> i'm not expecting that any of this is going to come back. but just in
> case, would renaming to "toxcore" solve the issue for you? otherwise,
> please delete it.

Disclaimer: I have no idea about tox.

I think any repository should have the same name as the source package.
In both repositories the source package name tox is used.  So if you
plan in the long future to release what is in this repository you would
need to change the source package anyway - may be toxcore is a sensible
name.  So renaming the repository to this name makes sense as well.
 
> sorry for the noise

No problem.  This was not the "loudest noise" ;-) I stumbled upon when
inspecting team repositories.

Kind regards

        Andreas.

> [0] https://tox.chat
> [1] https://salsa.debian.org/pkg-voip-team/utox/

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