Comment 11 for bug 836915

I finally have working packages now:

 * spandsp built unmodified from Debian sid
 * ptlib from experimental, updated to 2.10.2
 * opal from experimental, updated to 3.10.2, with Colin's patch added and ported to 3.10.2
 * ekiga 3.3.2

This brings up the main window, still remembers all my previous calls and contact lists from the last time I used ekiga (which must have been around lucid or so, when I started using empathy and telepathy-sofiasip). I can make SIP calls just fine.

I haven't tested video calls.

So, these obviously didn't get a lot of testing, but would fix the NBS/FTBFS problems, and the current Ekiga version in oneiric doesn't work for me at all; does it for any one else?

ptlib's only rdepends are opal and ekiga, opal's only rdepends is ekiga.

I removed t38modem, as it's quite unmaintained, FTBFS, and also depends on NBS libraries. There is a new upstream version 2.0, which might work with the current libraries. I'm really not interested in packaging it (nor am I really interested ekiga, but *shrug*), as these days there are plenty of well working and free/paid online fax services which really are a lot easier to use than a fax modem emulator.

Since I spent some 2.5 hours on the stack, I am obviously biased now, but I'd like to propose to upload the lot.

If other release team members disagree, my second preference is to remove ptlib, opal, and ekiga from Ubuntu, as it seems that nobody really cares about them.