Bug#360234: asterisk-classic: assumes existing configuration

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 08:47:02AM -0500, Jonathan Addleman wrote:
> Package: asterisk-classic
> Version: 1:1.2.4.dfsg-7
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable
> 
> On a fresh install of asterisk, the install fails. This is because it
> tries to start asterisk after installing, but /etc/default/asterisk is
> set up to *not* start asterisk. This makes the whole install fail.
> Simply changing /etc/default/asterisk to read RUNASTERISK=yes and then
> reinstalling fixed this, but of course that's not really what would need
> to be done to fix it!

Not having RUNASTERISK=yes set by default is simply a safer default.
However is there any post install script that assumes that Asterisk is
running? Asterisk could be misconfigured so this should be a bug.

> 
> On a fresh install (not necessarily an upgrade) asterisk shouldn't try
> to start asterisk, since it won't work anyway.

So you like the safe default or not? And why can't asterisk work out of
the box? It actually can. Quite easily.

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