i should add that ring barely supports debian 9 or ubuntu today - the ring package in debian main is from 2016 which i dont think will even work anymore - the ubuntu 'universe' package is also over a year old (20170803) so other than compiling from source, users must be subscribed to the ring nightly repos to have a current version
if all dependencies are still satisfiable in debian 8 and it can indeed be compiled from source, then it could be packaged for debian 8 and there is little reason not to do so because debian 8 is LTS and supported until April 2020 when i read this email last week i was reminded that i have been intending for some time to package ring on OBS to make it more widely available but the only deb-src package i could find was the obsolete one in debian from 2016 - there are some packaging scripts in the current git source but those have not been updated since 2016 and i had numerous problems trying to get them to actually build a package even for debian 9 for those who are not familiar with OBS, it is a build server that automates the building and distribution of packages for many disparate distros, including many popular distros that no one is packaging ring for, such as: * Fedora 27 * Debian 7 LTS (supported until May 2018) * Debian 8 LTS (supported until April 2020) * Ubuntu 14 LTS (supported until April 2019) * various RPM distros such as Magia, Centos, Redhat there is currently a repo on OBS that serves ring packages for opensuse - i presented this idea to the maintainer about a year ago and offered my help because he/she was having trouble at first but he/she did not accept my help and is apparently only interested in packaging for opensuse for some unknown reason - that instance can be easily cloned and because most RPM distros use very similar packaging, the other RPM distros mentioned above would probably be not much work to build for using the opensuse repo as a base - but without the current deb-src i would need to start debian/ubuntu packaging from scratch so i put the project back on the shelf for now until either the official debian package is upgraded or the current deb-src package is published on the ring repo
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