Bug#1031046: Request to close

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Matthias Urlichs via Pkg-voip-maintainers (2025-10-13 20:43:24)
> On 09.10.25 14:17, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> > 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".
> 
> This is a circular argument. Asterisk is not in Testing – because a 
> volunteer spent their effort to upload it to someplace external to 
> Debian – because it could not go into Backports (from which a tester 
> like, say, Linuxhotel could install it) – because it's not in Testing.
> 
> … and this despite the fact that the volunteer in question reported zero 
> changes to build Asterisk for Stable, which presumably would also apply 
> to Testing.
> 
> Could we please simply acknowledge that we now have volunteers who would 
> happily work on Asterisk in Stable(-backports) if/when there is some 
> need and/or possibility to actually do so, and … heretic thought here … 
> agree close this bug? Or maybe reduce its severity?
> 
> We can always re-open it and kick Asterisk back out of Testing if this 
> turns out to be premature; however, I don't think that'll happen.

If you think this bug is no more, then go ahead and close it.

 - Jonas

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