[bug#34044] Packaging Jami (ex GNU Ring)

[Christopher Lemmer Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org>]

Pierre Neidhardt writes:

> I've pushed the patch on the wip-ring branch, it seems to work.
> Let me know if you think it's read to merge onto master.

I've compiled and run this.  I was able to install ring-client-gnome and
get it up and running (I rebased against git master and it's fine) via
`ring.cx`.  However, when I run it, it complains that it can't find the
daemon and shuts down.  Any idea how to run that so I can test further?

Also, there's a few TODOs that I'm not sure are still relevant in the
ring-client-gnome definition:

  ;; TODO: Don't prompt for root password on build?

       ;; TODO: We must wrap ring-client-gnome to use
       ;; sqlite-with-column-metadata or else it will fail with:
       ;;
       ;;   /gnu/store/...-qtbase-5.11.2/lib/qt5/plugins/sqldrivers/libqsqlite.so:
       ;;   undefined symbol: sqlite3_column_table_name16
       ;;
       ;; qtbase is built against sqlite-with-column-metadata but somehow
       ;; ring-client-gnome ends up with both sqlite and
       ;; sqlite-with-column-metadata as inputs and it seems that
       ;; libqsqlite.so gets confused.

I haven't run into these alleged problems.  Are they still a concern?