Asterisk 1.6

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 01:56:15AM +0200, Faidon Liambotis wrote:
> Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> > asterisk, libpri, asterisk-addons: in their branches/experimental
> > dahdi-linux, dahdi-tools, libss7: in their trunk
> Cool, thanks! I think that these are too many to upload to experimental.
> Perhaps we could with just asterisk/libpri/dahdi?
> 
> > Important changes so far:
> > 1. It seems that ABI/API compatibility may be broken on every version.
> > In practice the modules API will be broken on 1.6.0->1.6.1 . 
> > Thus asterisk now provides (and asterisk-addons packages depend on)
> > "asterisk-1.6.0" . Though maybe just make it a versioned dependency on 
> > asterisk?
> That's *very* unfortunate and very silly IMHO.
> 
> That means that we'll have to do sourceful uploads of all of our
> packages everytime they release a new version?
> 
> Perhaps we should discuss with them the possibility of keeping the ABI
> as stable as possible?

Probably. 

We wouldn't be the only ones complaining.

> 
> > 2. No bristuff: A minimal bristuff patch is included in dahdi-linux, but
> > the userspace patches are dropped (asterisk, libpri). 
> Do you have any idea what are Digium's plans regarding libpri and BRI?
> I thought they were suggesting mISDN for that purpose and I expected
> them to be even more strict about this now that mISDN got merged.
> 
> I was very surprised, however, to see that they rewrote qozap on their
> own. Are they preparing BRI support themselves by any chance? :-)

Basically BRI is supported in libpri and chan_dahdi (except PtMP/NT).
In practice I suspect it will need some fixing.

> > 4. Zaptel has an epoch. dahdi-linux and dahdi-tools don't have an epoch.
> > This seems to work well for everything, except the build dependency of
> > asterisk on libtonezone's version.
> I think there isn't a clean solution for this besides the obvious of
> adding the epoch to dahdi...

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