Bug#1031046: Backport to bookworm

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting José Miguel Gonçalves (2024-09-06 16:37:28)
> I was thinking that it would be possible to go directly from unstable to 
> backports. Quoting from https://backports.debian.org/: "(In a few cases, 
> usually for security updates, backports are also created from the Debian 
> unstable distribution.)".

What makes sense to me is to interpret that passage as "...for cases
where the package in unstable is less buggy than the one in testing",
which does not fit here.

What makes sense to me is to pour all possible attention into getting
Asterisk acceptable for testing, and only *then* consider if there is
leftover energy to also offer a backport.

Hint hint: I expect to easily be able to handle the task of backporting
in addition to keeping Asterisk up-to-date in unstable.  What is needed
is someone volunteering the time to look after the Asterisk package that
is boringly sitting in stable or oldstable and occationally needing a
security patch applied.

I can do the task of releasing patches-applied updates, so you need not
be an official Debian developer to help.  All you need is dedication to
keep an eye on stable and oldstable branches of Debian, and the ability
to *try* to apply patches.  If you notice a needed patch, try to apply
it, and that fails, then we are a team, and you can ask me to try as
well - and you can shout out to Debian developers at large on the
debian-devel mailinglist as well.

This bugreport is about the lack of helping hands.

Please consider helping out.

Thanks for nice words about the work already done, but really what is
needed here is help.

Kind regards,

 - Jonas

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