dial-up comps group?

[Louis Lagendijk]

On Sat, 2013-03-09 at 08:36 -0500, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 6:48 AM, Dan Mashal <dan.mashal at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Thanks Kevin for starting this discussion.
> >
> > Please remove isdn4k completely from comps and retire/block it from Fedora
> > 19. The maintainer is unresponsive, the service fails on boot, has scriptlet
> > errors on yum update, and quite frankly if anyone is still using ISDN in
> > 2013 I feel sorry for them.
> 
> A quick look at Wikipedia confirms that it's still in use in India,
> Japan, and fairly extensively in Europe. It's being phased out
> everywhere, but it reaches places that ADSL still does not, and it's
> higher bandwidth than consistent latentcies are valuable for some
> remote audio applications.  So you may feel sorry for them, but it's
> going to be around a while longer.
Even though I do not have an ISDN connection anymore, my ADSL/VDSL modem
still uses ISDN Capi over IP for internal usage. And my ffgtk package
uses that for sending faxes etc. I have found the maintainer to be
somewhat slow in responding but the bugs I submitted have been solved. I
definitely object to retiring/blocking it.