[Debian-mobcom-maintainers] libosmo-abis is marked for autoremoval from testing

[Harald Welte]

Dear Debian mobcom maintainers,

On Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 04:39:05AM +0000, Debian testing autoremoval watch wrote:
> libosmo-abis 1.0.1-2 is marked for autoremoval from testing on 2021-03-24
> 
> It (build-)depends on packages with these RC bugs:
> 982332: dahdi-dkms: fails to build module for Linux 5.10
>  https://bugs.debian.org/982332

This should obviously be fixed.  As we have quite a number of DAHDI
users (including myself) in Osmocom, I can have a look.  I fear the
main problem is that debian ships a super ancient version of dahdi-linux,
several years behind upstream.

Aside from that, all that libosmocore needs is a single header file.  So
Debian could add that header file to libosmo-abis to keep building with DAHDI
support.

If for some reason none of the above are working out, one can always resort
to building libosmo-abis without DAHDI support via "./configure --disable-dahdi"

The last option is the least preferred from my point of view, as it basically
means that you can no longer use any E1/T1 baesd BTSs with OsmoBSC/OsmoMGW
anymore.

Regards,
	Harald

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