Bug#886984: asterisk: Version 15.2 available

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 10:04:57AM +0100, Bernhard Schmidt wrote:
> Am 12.01.2018 um 09:35 schrieb Matthias Urlichs:
> 
> Hi Matthias,
> 
> > Version 15.2 has just been released, while Debian's is still at 13.
> > Do you need help with packaging it, or what's the hold-up?
> 
> When Asterisk is released with Debian it needs to be supported for at
> least three years (~2 years of stable and ~1 year of unstable). Thus
> packaging in Debian uses the LTS train, which still is Asterisk 13.
> 
> https://www.asterisk.org/downloads/asterisk/all-asterisk-versions
> 
> If Asterisk 15 becomes LTS before Buster Freeze we will probably upgrade.

https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/Asterisk+Versions

Asterisk 15 will not be LTS. The plan is now for Asterisk 16 to be LTS.
Versions of Astrisk normally get released at Astricon, which is around
October.

This means: around freeze we'll have:

Asterisk 13: mature, but aging. supported(*) until Oct 2021
Asterisk 15: reasonably mature. Supported until Oct 2019
Asterisk 16: fresh. supported(*) until 2025(?)

(*) Support is for the branch. Which means backporting a host of
features. We get a certain release and don't follow the branch. Fixes
for the branch may or may not work.

Asterisk 13 also got quite a few new features (and hence: some
regressions). IIRC one of the recent security advisories did not apply
to the stable version at is was in a code added for a new PJSIP-related
feature.

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