Voicetronix's vpb-driver

[Faidon Liambotis]

Hello,
I am a member of the Debian VoIP packaging team and I'm mainly
maintaining Asterisk.

While investigating an open wishlist bug report which requests chan_vpb,
your name came up: you have apparently ITPed vpb-driver and you have
actually successfully Debianized it; I was surprised to see in the
upstream tarball a complete debian/ directory written by a DD.

So, I'm contacting you seeking for cooperation. I'd very much like to
fulfill this wish that a user had and have a more complete package.
However, I don't own such a card (and neither anyone else in the team)
and this could be hard for us.

Your debian/copyright is a bit worrying: you mention non-LGPL (and
non-DFSG-free) executables present in vpb-driver.
Is that a big part? Can these be stripped and still have a functional
-even for some of the cards- driver?

I have also found that opal (maintained by the team; primarily Kilian
Krause) provides vpbapi.h -- I'm not sure why to be honest.

Would you be interested in cooperating?
Joining pkg-voip and importing your work in the SVN repository would be
the first step (uploading to Debian will be the second I guess :).
Plus, assuming that you have such a card, I would be glad to have you as
a guinea pig for Asterisk packages with chan_vpb enabled.

What do you think?

Best regards,
Faidon