Bug#1031046: Request to close

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Matthias Urlichs via Pkg-voip-maintainers (2025-10-09 13:26:21)
> On 09.10.25 10:44, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> > My point was another: When asterisk is properly maintained, there is no
> > need for duplicating that work by custom-backporting it - regardless if
> > sponsored.
> 
> Which "custom backporting" are you talking about?

Given that asterisk is not in testing, and the (semi-)official Debian
backports for trixie requires that, I assume that success was against
something non-(semi-)official a.k.a. "custom".

> So which duplicate work is there? I don't see any. It's literally one 
> single argument to pbuilder-or-whatever that otherwise wouldn't be 
> there. (Assuming that your build infrastructure is set up to facilitate 
> that kind of thing.)
> 
> The current Asterisk was tested. It works. Great!

I fully agree that any and all testing and duplication of effort is in
some sense great.

> Somebody stepped up and did that building and testing. Great!

I fully agree that someone stepping up whereever and doing whatever is
in some sense great.

> Whether or not they got paid for that IMHO does not matter IMHO.

I fully agree that in some sense money changing hands do not matter.

> The important part is that the work gets done and ends up in 
> Debian. Which this particular work doesn't even need to, because it 
> already is, because of the "without changes" thing.

Uhm, so you agree that despite in *some* sense being great, it is at
best irrelevant for the topic of this thread?

> > 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.
> 
> While it'd be nice to ask sponsors to please finance the ongoing 
> maintenance of Asterisk packaging instead of one-shot(?) tests, I 
> disagree insofar as me volunteering and you getting paid for that work, 
> or vice versa, is not mutually exclusive.

I would like volunteers to volunteers chiming in here to volunteer here
because efforts here is what moves the needle towards acceptance into
stable Debian, not efforts done outside of this team.

 - Jonas

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