asterisk-perl situtation

[Faidon Liambotis]

Julien BLACHE wrote:
> It wasn't meant to be personal, sorry if you took it that way. I'm
> seeing way too much trivial bugs on pkg-voip packages that result from
> insufficient testing, especially regression-testing, and these bugs
> become hard to fix afterwards - a botched maintainer script isn't
> always easy to fix.
No personal feelings hurt, don't worry :)

I agree 100% with that.
That's why my postinst changes to Asterisk lie in experimental (the
branch, not the suite yet) for now.

Could you check them and test them? :)

>> My point was that it is a shame to see packages rot for years in the
>> repository without being uploaded to Debian.
> 
> As you've seen with asterisk-perl, when a package "rots" in SVN for
> years there's usually a good reason for that, so be careful :)
Well, AFAIK, asterisk-addons is a good counter-example though.
Also, we could have avoided asterisk-perl with an ITP :-)