Packaging a2billing

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 03:36:10PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> I'm not sure how to get in touch, if I'm using a wrong way, please tell
> me. Should I use a mailing list? pkg-voip at lists.debian.org maybe?

Yes, please. Keeping you CC for now as you're not (yet?) subscribed.

> 
> I have been trying, the last few days, to package Asterisk2Billing. The
> upstream package is quite badly packaged, with many libraries embedded,
> and some UNIX rights inconsistency (and issues). So I wrote a Makefile
> to solve the issue, and select only what's needed (eg: NOT the embedded
> libs that I started to package separately), to the correct folder, and
> with correct UNIX rights.

Looked at a2billing two years ago. Ran away screaming. 

Some relevant guidelines. Feel free to follow them if they help you :-)

  http://webapps-common.alioth.debian.org/draft/html/
  http://people.debian.org/~seanius/policy/dbapp-policy.html/

> 
> I was wondering if you guys are interested by my work. 

Yes. having it packaged would surely help.

> Please let me
> know. If you guys are interested, I can give you the .diff.gz and .dsc
> files. Maybe we could teamwork on that one?

Yup, that's what this team is for :-)

> 
> Also, is there a hope for FreePBX to be dfsg free, and uploaded to main,
> one day? Maybe we could use the older jpgraph 1.53 that is in main? I'd
> be interested in working this out as well.

There's a slow (or rather: non-progressing) work in progress on FreePBX.
DFSG is not the issue. There are some non-required non-DFSG stuff that
were removed (jgraph, and some non DFSG modules).

> 
> Is there any group / list that I should join to talk about all this?

Mailing list, IRC channel:

  http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-voip/README?op=file

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