Daniel Kahn Gillmor:
> Package: mumble
> Version: 1.2.18-1
> Severity: wishlist
>
> Mumble upstream apparently supports qt5 (at least in the 1.3.0
> prerelease series, i don't know about earlier).
>
> see for example mentions of a QT5-only patch here:
>
> https://github.com/mumble-voip/mumble/issues/2728
>
> and the build instructions here:
>
> https://wiki.mumble.info/wiki/BuildingLinux#1.3.x
>
> mumble is one of the few remaining tools that keep me from purging
> qt4. it'd be great to have a version built against QT5. maybe use in
> debian experimental since 1.3.x hasn't been released yet?
>
> --dkg
Hello again, Daniel.
Here's where the mumble package stands:
- mumble 1.2.x is not compilable with QT5.
- mumble 1.3.x is compilable with QT4 and QT5
- After the painful experience when Ron Lee was the maintainer of
the mumble package, upstream requested that I only release stable
releases, and not snapshots.
- mumble 1.3.x is desirable because with QT5 it supports encryption
modes that provide perfect forward secrecy
- I've had working packaging prepared for mumble 1.3.x for a long time
(> 1 year)
- mumble 1.3.x has not yet been released
- mumble 1.3.x source contains unreleasable files including IETF RFCs
such that building a -dfsg tarball would be needed to upload a
1.3.x version to experimental. I've discussed this problem with
upstream -- their tarball release scripts need to be updated to
strip these unreleasable files, but that work only needs to be done
once a release is ready...
- I discussed the -dfsg issue with several people at DebConf17 and
some have mentioned using Files-Excluded in debian/copyright and
tweaks to debian/watch to get uscan to build a -dfsg tarball
automatically, which I'm looking into.
I'm aware QT4 needs to be removed from Debian. I can talk to upstream
about this, and see what I can do to create a mumble 1.3.x package that
could be uploaded to experimental. *shrug*
-- Chris
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Chris Knadle
chris.kna...@coredump.us
