Possible problems in your Debian packages

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 01:49:50PM +0100, Patrick Matthäi wrote:
>On 17.02.2010 20:08, Patrick Matthäi wrote:

>>* srtp
>>- it is only in unstable
>>- low popcon: 11
>>- unmaintained in debian and not very active upstream
>>- 4 RC bugs, but a few are looking just unmaintained and already fixed.
>>- on the last build of the package (april 2008!) it only failed on one
>>release arch: ia64
>>- I think this also could be dropped, as long as no other wants to
>>maintain it
>
>Is anyone okay with removing it from the archive? Please speak up, if 
>not or I will schedule the removal on Sunday the 21.

Wauw! Suggest to remove on 17th and executing on 21st.

I was without email during the weekend, and come back to learn that srtp 
has been dropped from Debian. Not great!

srtp brings encrypted data streams to asterisk. It is *not* the same as 
SIP over TLS (which as I understand it only secures the control 
channel). srtp have had problems beyond what I could fix, but that is 
IMHO not enough reason to drop it from Debian.

More info at https://issues.asterisk.org/view.php?id=5413 and 
http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-dev/2008-July/034081.html and 
an old guide here: http://www.e164.org/wiki/AsteriskSRTP


  - Jonas

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