[grsch-devbug at ran-dom.org: asterisk-dahdi: MeetMe app should be reincluded]

[Gregor Schaffrath]

Hi all!

Formally, this is a Devuan bug, but I gather it's inherited from the Debian package list, so it may be of interest to you.

Bottom line: Upstream flagged an *-app (MeetMe) as 'deprecated' and _reinstated_ the app subsequently in an upstream bugtracker discussion I guess the Debian maintainer did not read anymore (as he figured the app was 'deprecated').

Therefore, the app, which is alive 'n kickin' (Status: 'extended support' and under active development) got excluded from Debian repositories and all distributions which derive their packages from Debian.

Devuan bug link: http://bugs.devuan.org//cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=170

Cheers,
		Gregor.

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Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2017 23:57:02 +0100
From: Gregor Schaffrath <grsch-devbug at ran-dom.org>
To: submit at bugs.devuan.org
Cc: grsch-devbug at ran-dom.org
Subject: asterisk-dahdi: MeetMe app should be reincluded
User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15)

Package: asterisk-dahdi
Version: 1:11.13.1~dfsg-2+deb8u4
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

I noticed that app_meetme.so , originally part of the asterisk package first got shifted to asterisk-dahdi and subsequently omitted, as the (very old, very basic) app got a 'deprecated' status from upstream in asterisk-10.
(compare: https://launchpad.net/debian/+source/asterisk/+changelog)

However, the asterisk community figured that ommission of the app broke functionality of non-deprecated asterisk parts and reinstated the app as 'extended support'.
(compare: https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-20134)

The app itself is alive and being actively modified.
(compare: https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/Upgrading+to+Asterisk+11 )

Unfortunately, while Debian followed the shift to deprecated, the maintainer failed to notice/follow this second shift (I guess that he didn't follow bug reports for 'deprecated' apps ;) ).

I'd like to request a reinclusion of the app in the Devuan repository. As I said: It's a very old, very stable, very reliable (and to me: very dear ;) ) app.



-- System Information:
Distributor ID: Devuan
Description:    Devuan GNU/Linux jessie
Release:        jessie
Codename:       n/a
Architecture: x86_64

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

Versions of packages asterisk-dahdi depends on:
ii  asterisk        1:11.13.1~dfsg-2+deb8u4
ii  dahdi           1:2.10.0.1-1
ii  libc6           2.19-18+deb8u10
ii  libopenr2-3     1.3.3-1
ii  libpri1.4       1.4.15-1
ii  libss7-1        1.0.2-5
ii  libtonezone2.0  1:2.10.0.1-1

asterisk-dahdi recommends no packages.

asterisk-dahdi suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information



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