Allow asterisk to build on bookworm without bookwork-backports (systemd-dev dependency)

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Matthias Urlichs via Pkg-voip-maintainers (2024-12-11 11:11:19)
> On 10.12.24 23:08, Martin Rampersad via Pkg-voip-maintainers wrote:
> > I am trying to compile asterisk for bookworm
> 
> Welcome to the club.
> 
> My own package sources are at https://git.smurf.noris.de/asterisk.git 
> (tag: smurf/stable/22.1.0-3), or you can get the resulting build via
> 
> deb http://build.smurf.noris.de stable main
> 
> (Signature at http://build.smurf.noris.de/info/smurf.archive.gpg) (https 
> also works but I don't see the point)
> 
> I need this for my employer, so I pledge to watch+rebuild for new 
> Upstream point releases at the very least.
> 
> That's the good news. The bad news is that I'm probably way too 
> opinionated to co-maintain the package for Debian in its current form — 
> anything I touch is based on an upstream git tag, does not have the 
> concept of a source tarball (please don't even mention "pristine-tar"), 
> and debian/patches has been applied and then deleted. Also, no security 
> patch cherry-picking if there's an upstream point release with the fix.

Please discuss Debian-is-fundamentally-unfit-for-my-packaging-needs
somewhere else than this mailinglist.

Fine if you have constructive suggestions on ways that the official
package might be differently maintained, still aligned with Debian
needs, but if you discard Debian wholesale, then the resulting
conversation belongs outside of this mailinglist.

Kind regards,

 - Jonas

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