Asterisk 1.6

[Faidon Liambotis]

Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> asterisk, libpri, asterisk-addons: in their branches/experimental
> dahdi-linux, dahdi-tools, libss7: in their trunk
Cool, thanks! I think that these are too many to upload to experimental.
Perhaps we could with just asterisk/libpri/dahdi?

> Important changes so far:
> 1. It seems that ABI/API compatibility may be broken on every version.
> In practice the modules API will be broken on 1.6.0->1.6.1 . 
> Thus asterisk now provides (and asterisk-addons packages depend on)
> "asterisk-1.6.0" . Though maybe just make it a versioned dependency on 
> asterisk?
That's *very* unfortunate and very silly IMHO.

That means that we'll have to do sourceful uploads of all of our
packages everytime they release a new version?

Perhaps we should discuss with them the possibility of keeping the ABI
as stable as possible?

> 2. No bristuff: A minimal bristuff patch is included in dahdi-linux, but
> the userspace patches are dropped (asterisk, libpri). 
Do you have any idea what are Digium's plans regarding libpri and BRI?
I thought they were suggesting mISDN for that purpose and I expected
them to be even more strict about this now that mISDN got merged.

I was very surprised, however, to see that they rewrote qozap on their
own. Are they preparing BRI support themselves by any chance? :-)

> 3. SONAMEs bumped in libpri and libtonezone. 
Cool :-)

> 4. Zaptel has an epoch. dahdi-linux and dahdi-tools don't have an epoch.
> This seems to work well for everything, except the build dependency of
> asterisk on libtonezone's version.
I think there isn't a clean solution for this besides the obvious of
adding the epoch to dahdi...

Thanks,
Faidon