Bug#1031046: Request to close

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Matthias Urlichs via Pkg-voip-maintainers (2025-10-09 06:13:43)
> On 08.10.25 22:19, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> > while the*only* reason for it needing such backporting is
> > lack of volunteers to help look after asterisk maintenance,
> 
> Nope, that's not the only reason.
> 
> You missed the fact that there's volunteers who have fun doing this, for 
> some value of "fun" anyway, and then there's people whose job entails 
> keeping package X in shape and who helpfully share their work with the 
> community, if nothing else because long-term it's less effort than doing 
> it all yourself.
> 
> Acknowledging the employer, sponsor, or whatever-you-name-them of such 
> work is something *I* call "common courtesy", esp. since there are no 
> immediate tangible advantages for doing so.

If I read you correctly, you are saying that there are people out there
interested in having asterisk available to them. I agree - that is the
reason I devote some time to maintaining asterisk in Debian, and would
hope that more would do so: To more efficiently reach out to those who
need asterisk.

My point was another: When asterisk is properly maintained, there is no
need for duplicating that work by custom-backporting it - regardless if
sponsored.

The reason I posted my remark was that I find it troublesome that it is
difficult to gather volunteers to maintain asterisk officially in
Debian, and I don't see that getting any easier by sponsors paying for
bypassing that.

 - Jonas

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