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

[Matthias Urlichs]

On 12.12.24 01:30, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> that some people (not you, those not showing an interest in stability)
> prioritizing backports over the very stuff that makes it possible to
> backport: something that is stable in the first place, as a foundation
> e.g. for such simpler and shorter-lived efforts of backporting.

I can only assume that you mean me by "some people".

I acknowledge that this is one way of looking at it, though I contest 
that I'm very much "interested in stability".

However. I'm not using Debian because I like intellectually-pure 
packaging. That's secondary to actually getting some work done. If the 
current packaging gets in the way of that, then my first step *has to* 
be to side-step some of it, for the simple reason that I'm not getting 
paid when my company's phone system stays broken.

The third step is to do this in such a way that the result isn't just a 
one-shot effort. The second step? figure out a way to spend the least 
possible effort on achieving step three.

Speaking of long-term stability: My core assumption is that the number 
of people who can do a quick "git pull upstream; fix conflicts if any; 
test; be happy; git debpush" (plus "git rebase" and fake-merging when 
there's a new Upstream release; in other words, the "git debpush" 
workflow) is strictly greater than the number of people who can and/or 
want to deal with pristine-tar and quilt. The nonexistence of a stable 
Asterisk .deb is not the only symptom of that. IMHO.

Thus, *my* view of a foundation for "stable and sustainable work" 
happens to be an upstream git tree with a minimum amount of changes to 
build DFSG-clean Debian binaries. If some additional work is required to 
wrangle the result into the shape that the current(!) Debian build 
infrastructure insists on (Asterisk does depend on a number of 
vendorized libraries and some other special sauce (DAHDI …)), fine, 
let's talk about how to do that.

-- 
-- regards
-- 
-- Matthias Urlichs

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