Possible problems in your Debian packages

[Patrick Matthäi]

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On 23.02.2010 20:21, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> 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

Sorry, but especially srtp was quite RC buggy (4 RC bugs if I remember
correctly). Packages in Debian also has to met the quality standards of
Debian and while no one was able to maintain it in a proper way, this is
the right way.

A remove does not mean, that it is not allowed to enter the archive in
the future again..

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Mit freundlichem Gruß / With kind regards,
 Patrick Matthäi
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