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Should use Debian package for pjsua-python #2

Closed ghost closed 9 years ago

ghost commented 9 years ago

There's a libpjsua-dev package in Python that should (but does not as of this writing) provide the necessary Python modules. The fact that it does not necessitates the extra hackery of d/l the source from pjproject, and is Debian bug 768578. The bug is closed, the maintainer has uploaded a new version of the package that provides the python modules. I'm testing the new version now. It should be uploaded in a few weeks. In the meantime, if it works, I'll amend the installation instructions in my branch.

ghost commented 9 years ago

I've compiled the source package from the maintainer's QA page and verified that autoanswer.py works with the python-pjproject .deb it provides.

danry25 commented 9 years ago

if its in Apt or Pip, I'd much rather pull pjsua from there! Then it'll actually get patches and maintenance from people more knowledgeable than thou. So, I should add libpjproject-dev to the list of dependencies and drop the instructions to build PJSUA then?

ghost commented 9 years ago

No, because libpjproject-dev does not provide the Python modules. The source package provides the source tree from which to build the modules, but it's an old version and doesn't build correctly so it's not worth trifling with. The new package is python-pjproject, which is OK to use in the deps list iff you're installing to Sid.The updated package is not in the testing yet. I expect it will be soon.

The QA page shows the progress of the package. It looks like it's already available in unstable, and hopefully will be in testing in 10 days or so. As it stands right now, we should be able to pull it using apt-get install -t unstable python-pjproject or plain apt-get install python-pjproject on any Sid box, though I don't recommend the former (easier and simpler IMO for me to provide the .debs and a script to install them in the correct order, which hopefully we won't need until the new packages are in the branch we normally use.) Or we could "upgrade" any autoanswering box to Sid if that's easier- but I counsel patience.

mk-fg commented 9 years ago

I'd also advise against ever pulling something from Sid into Jessie, esp. with deps.

As of cb3ef6f README has a description of how to build packages for both pjproject and python-pjproject with checkinstall on Jessie, as well as some other quirks of the whole process.

It should be easy to maybe host these debs in a thrid-party repository, if there's a need to install this stuff on many Jessie machines, otherwise - if it's just one-two boxes - can either be built there or debs just copied over and installed with dpkg -i stuff.deb.

In Sid (and the next stable whassit), it should be indeed possible to avoid all that and just use upstream packages.

mk-fg commented 9 years ago

And I think this one bites the dust.