asterisk 1.4

[Daniel Pocock]

Tzafrir Cohen wrote:

>It seems that we will have Asterisk 1.4 by October. Let's assume that
>this will be late October. Do we want it in Etch?
>
>My main considerations are the ability to support the codebase for a
>long period of time. For most of the life of Sarge the upstream release
>was 1.2 and the Debian release was 1.0 . Upstream (Digium) gave
>almost zero attention to 1.0. I expect that 1.2 will be "abandoned" in a
>similar manner shortly after 1.4 is released.
>
>So: is there anybody/anything that really needs new features from
>Asterisk 1.4? userconf seems really useful for me. The new config system
>would have looked handy if we didn't have the bristuff patch on our
>back.
>
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The internal_timing feature is essential, particularly for 
interoperation with ENUM and with larger wholesale networks who aren't 
interested in changing settings like silence suppression on a per-peer 
basis.