Quoting C. Maj (2024-12-13 01:08:37) > On 12/12/24 16:27, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > I am confused, and concerned for the maintenance of asterisk. > > Agreed 100%. > > I write from my previous-slash-night-job email address from where I've > submitted some work here towards getting Asterisk on Debian in the past, > but my day-job is currently Open Source Solutions Advocate at Sangoma, > the primary sponsors and developers of the upstream Asterisk (and > FreePBX) projects. > > Please know that many people at Sangoma are very much interested in > supporting the work to get Asterisk 22 in Debian 13. This was a topic of > conversation at the most recent AstriDevCon held virtually last week: > > https://github.com/asterisk/documentation/commit/4cec2ba69c8303790243c9f9d315ec86f5fc998a > > Regarding security issues, these are regularly handled by multiple core > developers employed by Sangoma, in an orderly, organized manner. The > Debian security team should rest soundly knowing that this is not an > all-volunteer operation putting out pristine Asterisk tarballs upstream. > > That said, there does not appear to be any active, open security issues > for the asterisk package in trixie at: > > https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/asterisk > > Asterisk 22 is an LTS release in 2024, scheduled to go SFO in 2028 and > EOL in 2029, which if Debian 13 is released in 2025 and is EOL in 2028, > this should be an okay fit for Sangoma employees to take responsibility > for the bulk of the security needs ie. all those that are not related to > Debian-team changes. More on Asterisk versions here: > > https://docs.asterisk.org/About-the-Project/Asterisk-Versions/ > > Unfortunately, the current Asterisk on Debian build process is, shall we > say, cumbersome to reproduce independently. Shining some light on a > basic outline of the *current* steps used would be most helpful. > > And yes, again, I volunteer to help (and would offer to update my > backported scripts to Debian 12 from earlier in the year, if I thought > that would help)!
Thanks for sharing your insights from a more-or-less upstream PoV. And thanks a lot for your offer to help! - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ * Sponsorship: https://ko-fi.com/drjones [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
