Bug#710710: asterisk: bump version to 11 (LTS release)

[Faidon Liambotis]

On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 04:18:01PM +1000, Mark Purcell wrote:
>I do not see this as a showstopper to uploading.
>
>sflphone also includes an embedded copy of pjproject. There is merit in
>having one master version of pjproject in Debian for a whole slew of
>reasons, and I therefore support the efforts under #708122.

I disagree. That's a direct policy violation, section 4.13 "Convenience
copies". Moreover, it's a double one at that, since pjproject itself has
its own embedded convenience copies of a number of libraries under the
third_party directory, including libraries which are packaged separately
in Debian (srtp, portaudio, …).

There was a thread on the asterisk-dev mailing list during which both
myself, Tzafrir & Daniel Pocock intervened as well as the Fedora
maintainers. Asterisk upstream is aware of the issue this presents and
they're working on cleaning up pjproject and making it shared
library/distro friendly. I think their efforts is at
https://github.com/asterisk/pjproject/. Someone from pkg-voip should
evaluate that, find the issues there and package it, to be used by
Asterisk, sflphone, python-sipsimple and whatever other project uses
pjproject.

Regards,
Faidon