> FWIW Linphone is another comms app that relies on E2EE to protect user > privacy. The version in the 8.0 repos is 3.6.1 and seems to have a > number of bugs when trying to add or connect to accounts on > Linphone.org. The latest version according to Wikipedia is 4.1.1. The > SFD lists a stable 3.7.0 release, which may or may not be the most > recent stable release in the 3.x branch. This is another candidate for > backporting or removing from the repos.
I use Linphone regularly. JMP is my SIP provider, not Linphone.org, and I have not experienced any problems. I would be fine with backporting a newer version, but I would be annoyed if the current version were removed from the repos without being replaced. Removing a package from the repos is pretty invasive. Even if a package seems useless to you, you cannot be certain that it is not important to another user. As a general policy, I think that we should only remove packages which (a) have freedom issues which are either impossible or too costly to fix or (b) are Ubuntu-specific. The approach to backporting Linphone will be similar to that for bacporting Jami. There does not appear to be a PPA or apt repository packaging the latest version for Ubuntu 16.04, so we will backport it from a later version of Ubuntu. Let me know when you want to work on this and I'll walk you through it.
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