Bug#479612: after upgrade to spandsp 0.0.4pre18 asterisk-app-fax crashes asterisk

[Faidon Liambotis]

James Bottomley wrote:
> Apparently the dependency of asterisk-spandsp-plugins and spandsp-dev
> is pretty tight.  It looks like there was a binary incompatible change
> introduced by the upgrade from 0.0.4pre16 to 0.0.4pre18
> 
> I verified that asterisk crashes every time a fax is received after the
> upgrade
> 
> Recompiling asterisk-spandsp-plugins_0.0.20070624-1 and reinstalling makes
> the crash go away.  It looks like theres a compiled version in unstable that
> will go through to testing in 10 days and fix the problem
> 
> The net of this bug report is that either these packages need to be tied
> together, or the so version of spandsp needs increasing for every change
> (because in the pre stage the ABI is obviously not stable)
It's been a while since I used app-fax -- therefore, help maintaining it 
is welcome.

Are you certain that the crash is because of a spandsp ABI change and 
not because of an asterisk ABI change? We've had one of those as well :(

Thanks,
Faidon