asterisk-perl situtation

[Julien BLACHE]

Faidon Liambotis <paravoid at debian.org> 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 :)

Good :)

> 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? :)

I'm no longer in a position to test Asterisk, unfortunately. I don't
know if I'll be in a such a position again in the future.

>> 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.

Hmm, from memory, what's the status of the mysql addon ? (IIRC it's in
asterisk-addons)

> Also, we could have avoided asterisk-perl with an ITP :-)

I don't remember what happened, but I think there was an old ITP or
RFP and we just missed it or something.

JB.

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