Bug#738588: 'smsq' SMS helper missing from Asterisk 1.8 till sid: missing dependencies?

[Marco Gaiarin]

Package: asterisk
Version: 1:1.8.13.1~dfsg1-3+deb7u3

I've upgraded my squeeze home server to wheezy, and after some weeks
i've noted that SMS in asterisk stop working.

After some fiddling, i've found that simply the 'smsq' SMS queue helper
is missing from the packages; i've tried using 'packages.debian.org'
and seems missing from wheezy (asterisk 1.8) till unstable, while is
present in asterisk 1.6 (squeeze).

I've simply done:

 apt-get source asterisk
 apt-get build-dep asterisk

then:

 cd asterisk-1.8.13.1~dfsg1/utils/
 < some trial and error, and some googling ... >
 POPT_LIB="-lpopt" make smsq
 strip smsq
 cp smsq /usr/sbin/

and smsq compile and run as expected; clearly i've had (previously,
indeed) installed libpopt-dev package, so seems to me that simply
asterisk got a missing dependencies on libpopt-dev, and so smsq does
not compile.


Considering the easy fix, could be backported to stable and so forth?


Thanks