Mark, some help with ideas? asterisk developement?

[Mark Purcell]

Brandon,

> Mark, I will be running through my builds this week.

Excellent.  However, please keep the discussion on list:
pkg-voip-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org as there are a few of us
involved..

Our svn archive is where we do most our good work!  Have a look at the
instructions at:

http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-voip/README?op=file&rev=0&sc=0

> As soon as I get a good, stable .deb package for asterisk 1.2
> and asterisk 1.4, what should I do?

asterisk-1.2.13 is already looking pretty solid and should be migrating
from sid to etch in the next couple of days:
http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian/testing.pl?package=asterisk

But please if you can send a diff from the svn archive to this mailing
list and we should be able to encorporate it very quickly.  Note that the
freeze for etch is expected very shortly so we are currently cleaning up
final issues before etch is released in December.

We have started packaging asterisk-1.4 under:
http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-voip/asterisk/branches/experimental/?rev=0&sc=0

We are using this as a bit of a sandbox, ideally I would like to package
using cdbs, but we shall see.  Once we get something working we will
release to the debian experimental distribution.  While the rest of the
user community beds down with asterisk 1.2.

> I want to start working and pushing debian as a "supported distrobution"
> for asterisk to run on.
>
> So help me prove this theory :]

That's what we are here for... :-)

> I also want to do a build of asterisk 1-4.beta3 tarball, and POSSIBLY
> (tell me if this is possible,
> or maybe we could work together to do it) have a script/program that
> updates the .deb package
> on the stable asterisk branch that downloads, packs, and debianizes the
> latest svn checkout
> of asterisk trunk (1.4).

That's exactly what we are doing in svn.debian.org, we have the scripts
setup to build the various versions of asterisk, also for the various
versions of debian/ and ubuntu...

Check out the svn-buildpackage command from the README above.

> I have done similar things to do this so.....Please, if I am not speaking
> to the right
> person, forward this to someone I can work with.

No youhave the right place, we are just a little focused on getting etch
out the door, but if you send to pkg-voip-maintainers you will get the
right bunch.

> Thanks for all your time Mark, it has been of great help. Debian based Os'
> have always been
> my favorite, and I would like to see asterisk thrive on it more and more.
>
>
> Send/Forward me your thoughts..

Sounds Good...

Mark