Asterisk git project

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Hi Pablo,

Quoting Pablo De Paulis via Pkg-voip-maintainers (2023-09-22 23:16:25)
> I was browsing the September archives and noticed this message from Tzafrir (for Dahdi though).
> 
> https://alioth-lists.debian.net/pipermail/pkg-voip-maintainers/2023-September/037793.html
> 
> 
> That got me thinking, going back to Asterisk (and in general for Digium stuff).
> 
> So you aren’t taking the upstream tarballs from https://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/ but rather from a git repo (weather Digium or fork)?
> 
> Like in this case:
> https://alioth-lists.debian.net/pipermail/pkg-voip-maintainers/2023-September/037803.html
> What's the upstream?

There is no single answer to that question, across packaging projects.

Each Debian source package is maintained individually, and for each
packaging project there may be different ways to track upstream and to
gather upstream source.

Upstream tracking - i.e. monitoring when upstream publishes new code
potentially relevant to package for Debian - is commonly done using
"uscan", through hints stored in the Debian source package at
"debian/watch".  E.g. for asterisk we track by monitoring the web page
at https://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/releases/ - as
can be seen here:
https://salsa.debian.org/pkg-voip-team/asterisk/-/blob/debian/latest/debian/watch

Upstream sources are often but not always imported also using uscan.
That is the case e.g. for current maintenance of Asterisk, using the
hlper tool git-buildpackage via the command "gbp import-orig --uscan" as
is hinted in a comment at the top of the watch file referenced above.

Packages that use an unusual maintenance style are encouraged to
document procedures used in the file "debian/README.source".  As an
example, previous maintenance style used for the releases of Asterisk in
oldstable is documented here:
https://salsa.debian.org/pkg-voip-team/asterisk/-/blob/buster/debian/README.source


> Sorry the questions are basic, but we are trying to understand how we can get involved to get Asterisk and friends in Bookworm.

Questions are very welcome.


 - Jonas

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