Hi Jonas,
Thank you for your quick response.
Please do not consider my questions as I was demanding anything.
I just wanted a confirmation that Asterisk was still going to be
packaged in Debian in the near future (at least, during the life of
Asterisk 20).
I only have appreciations for the Debian project, in the maintenance of
very stable systems that I use in my work and private life.
Going to a more specific question, are you considering packaging
Asterisk 20 for bookworm-backports?
Best regards,
José Miguel Gonçalves
On 06/09/24 14:10, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
Hi José,
Quoting José Miguel Gonçalves (2024-09-06 13:14:26)
I was wondering, what is the current maintenance status of Asterisk on
Debian?
Nothing has changed since my older responses in this bugreport, so
please read my other posts here and ask more specifically if there is
something you don't find covered there already.
I see that there are packages published on unstable, but the current
version has a reported security vulnerability (CVE-2024-42365
<https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1078574>) since
August 12, that was still not addressed.
Yes, there are bugs filed against Asterisk. Please go examine which of
those bugs you consider affecting your use of Asterisk.
Is the goal to still maintain Asterisk packages in Debian or there is
lack of man-power for that?
As also reflected by my older resonses in this bugreport, the goal is to
maintain Asterisk packages in Debian, but having that goal is not
adequate exactly due to lack of man power: I have enough time to keep
Asterisk afloat for unstable, but lack the time to care for stable
releases of Debian.
I'm using these packages since 2015 and I need to upgrade some servers
that I support form Asterisk 16 to 20 and I was wondering if could
continue to use Debian packages (even if I need to backport them from
unstable to bookworm) or if I need to go in other direction (find some
alternative Debian packaging, or compile/package it myself).
Whether you find the current level of care for Asterisk in Debian
superior or inferior to whatever support you can achieve elsewhere is
something I cannot really answer. You do not *need* to go elsewhere, if
that is really what you are asking here.
Kind regards, and thanks for your interest in Debian and Asterisk,
- Jonas
