asterisk into unstable

Tzafrir Cohen tzafrir.cohen at xorcom.com
Sun Mar 8 16:10:15 UTC 2009


On Sun, Mar 08, 2009 at 12:25:07PM +0100, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 02:06:33PM +0200, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 09:59:00PM +1100, Mark Purcell wrote:
> >> On Monday 16 February 2009 20:57:16 Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> 
> >>> So how do we move forward with getting Asterisk into Unstable?
> 
> >>> The newer libpri and the DAHDI packages are prerequirements.
> 
> >> Are we going to depreciate bristuff while we work on asterisk 1.6?
> 
> > Yes.
> 
> > Thus we are left with the functionality of Asterisk 1.6.0 and DAHDI .
> > Which basically means the following changes:
> 
> > * Libpri does not support (yet?) NT/ptmp .
> 
> That will be a *significant* blocker for some users. :-( It means
> Asterisk cannot be a PBX for ISDN phones anymore.

I'm aware of that. However forward-porting the libpri changes is quite
difficult. And I have been unable to get any cooperation from K.P.
Junghanns. So I consider this code abandoned. We could have separate
libpri and asterisk packages (asterisk14, asterisk16, or whatever). But
this also has its maintinance cost.

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