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

[James Bottomley]

On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 21:30 +0300, Faidon Liambotis wrote:
> 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 :(

Yes ... because

     1. There was no asterisk update in the last apt-get update on
        Saturday
     2. recompiling sterisk-spandsp-plugins_0.0.20070624-1 with the new
        libspandsp-dev fixes the problem (as I said).

James