Towards becoming a pkg-voip developer

[Kilian Krause]

Diego,

> >As for the sed scripts: this seemed to be a better and more maintainable 
> >way to describe changes than plain dpatches. But then-again, as I
> >mentioned, those packages need improving. 
> >  
> >
> I find the seds to be more readable then the dpatch. Also when working 
> on our svn, it's kinda hard to make dpatch, as we maintain only the 
> Debian directory and not the full source. 

svn-buildpackage --svn-ignore --svn-export

From there you can just poke the source until satisfied and merge back
the new dpatch. Nothing I find too flawed. Actually that's why I just
like dpatch; it forces you to keep your diff clean. ;)

> Tzafrir builds a dpatch on a 
> separate directory and then imports into the svn, while I made a new 
> repository in which I have the full source of amportal and I used the 
> Debian directory as an external dir to the real repository. IMHO, the 
> sed are more readable, and take less "space". Since I am activly 
> maintainig that package here, it's my call. If I need to share the 
> package with Debian, I can be flexible ;-)

If it's maintained and if it's done well, I don't care what the exact
details are. Yet my experience is, for snapshots sed is more flexible
and thus more robust, whereas for release dpatch is better because
you'll notice code changes more actively and you'll be forced to check
if you're still doing the right thing. 

Regarding putting it in Debian, I'd remeber there was license issues
with the Flash code of amportal. What's the status of freepbx, is it
DFSG-free or can it be made to comply? If so, please go ahead and add it
to the SVN so we can have a look and upload it.

> I have been working on freepbx. The Debian dir has changed a little, and 
> I splited the package correctly (amportal used it's own "op-panel" and 
> not the official one from Debian, same for ARI). Both ARI and op-panel 
> have integration problems, if you want to do it automatically, and thus 
> the  debs produced are not really functional.
> 
> If you want, I can send you what I have, and we can split our work. This 
> package is not trivial, and to package it the correct way, I will need 
> more eyes. IMHO, if we start now, we will have a functional debs when 
> freepbx is officially released.

feel free to send me your gpg key, ssh pubkey and a copy of the packs so
i can add you the pkg-voip buildd. From there we can have a better
testing.

-- 
Best regards,
 Kilian
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