Bug#1031046: Asterisk removed from Debian Bookworm

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Antony Stone (2023-05-26 22:09:06)
> I am indeed interested in finding out what would be involved / required / 
> expected in order to help keep Asterisk as a package in a future release of 
> Debian Stable - and in the meantime, to ensure that it remains available in 
> Backports.

Backports is an *extension* to core package maintenance in Debian.

First the package needs to be in good shape in "unstable", then it gets
accepted into "testing", and only then can it (when released, every 2
years) enter "stable" and optionally ahead of that also "backports".

> I have asked on the Asterisk community list / forum to find out
> whether anyone else would be willing to join in, but I think the
> starting point for anyone agreeing to this needs to be - what would
> you want someone to do, if they have the time and interest to help in
> keeping Asterisk in Debian?

The VoIP team currently only have enough man power (me) to roll out
regular releases, and needs more people willing to check for and prepare
and test patches fixing severe bugs reported against any of the official
Debian branches where Asterisk is included - i.e. unstable, testing,
stable, and oldstable.
(Backports is only "officially unofficial" in that it comes without
security support, and oldoldstable only borrows infrastructure from
Debian but is maintained by a commercially driven coop).

Debian work is coordinated through the team mailinglist and in the
Debian bugreports (which act as tiny ad-hoc mailinglists as well), and
optionally the team also socializes and does casual chit-chat on irc
(bridged with Matrix): https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/VoIP/

Hope to welcome a lot of you on our mailinglist :-)


 - Jonas

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