Abandoned pkg-voip packages

[Faidon Liambotis]

Hi,

It's been a year, so reviving this thread:

On Thu, Jan 04, 2018 at 01:47:01PM +0100, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> > - src:libpri, src:openr2, src:spandsp: all were last uploaded by a
> >   mantainer in June 2014 (spandsp saw an NMU in Apr 2016). They're all
> >   Asterisk dependencies and if memory serves they were fairly simple
> >   packages, so perhaps the Asterisk maintainers could take them over?
> 
> Sure. libpri needs a new upload. Not much change in the other two. All
> are useful and used with Asterisk.

While libpri saw an upload relatively recently (Feb 2018), he other two
haven't. Their last maintainer upload was in 2014.

I realize that there haven't been new upstream releases for those, but
that doesn't mean that they should bitrot in Debian as well. They should
be updated to recent packaging standards within Debian, see bugs
reported against them fixed, have an accurate Maintainer field, their
repo in Git etc.

Tzafrir and Bernhard, do you intend to maintain these packages? If not,
these should be orphaned and not released with buster. I'm not sure what
this means for Asterisk (maybe OpenR2/SpanDSP features should just be
disabled?) but this needs to be finally dealt with IMHO :)

On Thu, Jan 04, 2018 at 01:51:59PM +0200, Faidon Liambotis wrote:
> - src:siproxd: last maintainer upload in May 2013, plus an NMU in May of
>   2015. Upstream seems fairly active:
>   http://siproxd.sourceforge.net/index.php?op=changelog

This is the only remaining VoIP package that I had on my list (thanks
Bernhard for taking care of the rest!). Is anyone interested in stepping
up to maintain that? If so, I'll request its removal from the archive --
I'll wait about a week before filing it :)

Regards,
Faidon