Bug#566834: asterisk: Debian Asterisk versions incompatible with Skype for Asterisk

[Nikhil Nair]

Package: asterisk
Version: 1:1.4.21.2~dfsg-3+lenny1
Severity: normal


Skype for Asterisk is now out of beta testing, and available to everyone; however, it seems that Debian users will have to 
compile their own Asterisk system from scratch, rather than using the Debian packages, due to version mismatches.  From the 
Skype for Asterisk README:

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It is required that the proper version of Asterisk is installed prior to
installing Skype For Asterisk. Skype For Asterisk is currently supported on:
 
   Asterisk 1.4 versions >= 1.4.25
   Asterisk 1.6.0 versions >= 1.6.0.6
   Asterisk 1.6.1 versions >= 1.6.1.5
 
Previous versions of Asterisk WILL NOT work properly with Skype For Asterisk.
It is also important to make sure that the major version of Skype For Asterisk
downloaded matches the version of Asterisk installed on the system. Trying to
compile Skype For Asterisk 1.4 versions on Asterisk 1.6.0 while fail, etc.
There is no version of Skype For Asterisk for Asterisk trunk.

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Debian Stable (Lenny) uses a version prior to 1.4.25, so is, presumably, not compatible; and even if I were willing to 
upgrade my whole system to Testing (Squeeze) just to get this one aspect working, that uses Asterisk 1.6.2.0, which, from 
the comment above re the Asterisk trunk, I presume would not work either.

Not sure what is possible re a workaround within the various Debian policies; I'm guessing you're not allowed to put 
Asterisk 1.4.25 into Lenny, as it wasn't there during the testing phase, but I'd be delighted to be wrong on that.  At any 
rate, I do hope Skype for Asterisk will work on Squeeze, in due course, as that's a great development for Asterisk users.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.3
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages asterisk depends on:
ii  adduser         3.110                    add and remove users and groups
ii  asterisk-config 1:1.4.21.2~dfsg-3+lenny1 Configuration files for Asterisk
ii  asterisk-sounds 1:1.4.21.2~dfsg-3+lenny1 Core Sound files for Asterisk (Eng
ii  libasound2      1.0.16-2                 ALSA library
ii  libc-client2007 7:2007b~dfsg-4+lenny3    c-client library for mail protocol
ii  libc6           2.7-18lenny2             GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcap2         2.11-2                   support for getting/setting POSIX.
ii  libcurl3        7.18.2-8lenny3           Multi-protocol file transfer libra
ii  libgcc1         1:4.3.2-1.1              GCC support library
ii  libgsm1         1.0.12-1                 Shared libraries for GSM speech co
ii  libiksemel3     1.2-4                    C library for the Jabber IM platfo
ii  libncurses5     5.7+20081213-1           shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libnewt0.52     0.52.2-11.3+lenny1       Not Erik's Windowing Toolkit - tex
ii  libogg0         1.1.3-4                  Ogg Bitstream Library
ii  libpopt0        1.14-4                   lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libpq5          8.3.9-0lenny1            PostgreSQL C client library
ii  libpri1.0       1.4.3-2                  Primary Rate ISDN specification li
ii  libradiusclient 0.5.5-1                  Enhanced RADIUS client library
ii  libsnmp15       5.4.1~dfsg-12            SNMP (Simple Network Management Pr
ii  libspeex1       1.2~rc1-1                The Speex codec runtime library
ii  libspeexdsp1    1.2~rc1-1                The Speex extended runtime library
ii  libsqlite0      2.8.17-4                 SQLite shared library
ii  libssl0.9.8     0.9.8g-15+lenny6         SSL shared libraries
ii  libstdc++6      4.3.2-1.1                The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libtonezone1    1:1.4.11~dfsg-3          tonezone library (runtime)
ii  libvorbis0a     1.2.0.dfsg-3.1+lenny1    The Vorbis General Audio Compressi
ii  libvorbisenc2   1.2.0.dfsg-3.1+lenny1    The Vorbis General Audio Compressi
ii  libvpb0         4.2.38-1                 Voicetronix telephony hardware use
ii  unixodbc        2.2.11-16                ODBC tools libraries
ii  zlib1g          1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12        compression library - runtime

asterisk recommends no packages.

Versions of packages asterisk suggests:
ii  asterisk-dev    1:1.4.21.2~dfsg-3+lenny1 Development files for Asterisk
ii  asterisk-doc    1:1.4.21.2~dfsg-3+lenny1 Source code documentation for Aste
pn  asterisk-h323   <none>                   (no description available)
ii  ekiga           2.0.12-1+nmu1            H.323 and SIP compatible VoIP clie
pn  kphone          <none>                   (no description available)
pn  ohphone         <none>                   (no description available)
pn  twinkle         <none>                   (no description available)

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