[Pkg-n900-maint] Packaging phone functionality for Debian/N900

[Serge E. Hallyn]

Quoting Sebastian Reichel (sre at kernel.org):
> Hi,
> 
> On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 08:28:12AM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > On Thu 2016-07-21 23:46:31, Sebastian Reichel wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 08:51:08AM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > > > First, thanks for the great project. Debian is usable on N900 now.
> > > 
> > > From the kernel-side cameras and bluetooth are still missing,
> > > though. I got my H4+ driver working on N950 last week. It's
> > > still broken on N900, though (if you are curious search for
> > > "This fails on N900" in drivers/bluetooth/hci_h4p.c). My
> > 
> > Has bluetooth ever worked for you on N900?
> 
> It works with the Maemo. It never worked with the splitted H4+
> driver.
> 
> > I do have v4.7-rc working, but it works only with certain
> > .config's, and dependency seems to be somewhat strange.
> 
> I remmeber having problems getting your driver working due
> to missing EPROBEDEFER handling. That has been quite some
> time ago, though.
> 
> > Cameras will be a lot of fun: kernel drivers need work, and userspace
> > needs a ton of work, too.
> > 
> > OTOH: phone without bluetooth and camera is still pretty usable.
> 
> sure
> 
> > > > I have working voice calls on debian 7 (and kernel v4.7) and am
> > > > wondering what are the next steps... ofone is needed for SMS and modem
> > > > control, libcmtspeechdata is for passing audio data back and forth.
> > > > 
> > > > https://gitlab.com/tui/tui/tree/master/ofone
> > > > https://gitlab.com/libcmtspeechdata/libcmtspeechdata
> > > > 
> > > > There is a lot of work needed to be done on both, but it is already
> > > > usable, so I guess it would be nice to get other people to try it, and
> > > > perhaps get some Debian packages...?
> > > 
> > > I already packaged libcmtspeechdata for Debian some time ago. It's
> > > currently based on commit 9206835e. I just updated the packaging
> > > to 8efc4681 (current master) and added a package for the binaries
> > > from utils/. It's currently waiting in the NEW queue.
> > > 
> > > https://packages.qa.debian.org/libc/libcmtspeechdata.html
> > 
> > Wow, thanks, good!
> > 
> > Do you use any kind of GUI for placing/receiving calls? Do you have
> > something reasonable for screen locking?
> 
> No. I do not yet have configured my N900 for daily use.

So maybe I'm ignorant of ongoing cooperation, but last I knew the
neo900 was still an existing project.  Seems like a working upstream
debian would be valuable there.  Are they at all involved?

-serge