asterisk-perl situtation

[Julien BLACHE]

Faidon Liambotis <paravoid at debian.org> wrote:

Hi,

> Unfortunately, someone else (Rene Mayorga[1]) beat him to it and the
> package (called libasterisk-agi-perl but is the same thing) is already
> in unstable _and_ testing.
> Rene filled an ITP et al so we can't really blame him.
>
> Moreover, the package was prepared by Tzafrir on November 2004 and has
> changelog entries on Jun 2005, Oct 2006, Aug 2007 but never got uploaded
> in Debian!

asterisk-perl had no license attached to it until very recently,
that's why it *couldn't* be uploaded to Debian.

Moreover, please refrain from uploading everything that's in the
pkg-voip repo to unstable if it's not in a good enough shape. That's
what experimental is for.

If a package is uploaded to unstable which is not of release quality,
please block it from going to testing with a dummy RC bug.

"let's upload everything to unstable and let the users sort it out" is
not a good policy, and certainly does not focus on quality.

JB.

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