[Freeswitch-users] Debian repository out of date

[Andrew Cassidy]

Ben, what Micheal is talking about (passing patches upstream) is a
prerequisite to what Karl is talking about (getting into the main Debian
repositories)

We can't do the latter without the former.


On 9 September 2013 22:32, Ken Rice <krice at freeswitch.org> wrote:

>  Yep and I’m trying to figure out why... Currently everything is getting
> rebuilt, but as I said this takes several hours of processing time to
> complete and then I will reset the repo
>
>
>
> On 9/9/13 4:21 PM, "Steven Ayre" <steveayre at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I see 1.2.12 in the pool, but it isn't listed in the Packages file so apt
> doesn't find them.
>
>
> http://files.freeswitch.org/repo/deb/debian/dists/wheezy/main/binary-amd64/Packages
>
>
> On 9 September 2013 15:39, Ken Rice <krice at freeswitch.org> wrote:
>
> it is kept up to date in fact its getting resyned again to make sure its
> up to date...  however it does take time for this stuff to build and
> propogate
>
> Ken
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On Sep 9, 2013, at 7:46, Michael Jerris <mike at jerris.com> wrote:
>
> We have no excuses to not keep our repo up to date.  If this still isn't
> resolved let me know please.
>
> Mike
>
> On Sep 9, 2013, at 8:38 AM, Andrew Cassidy <
> andrew at cassidywebservices.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Indeed, having our own repo is adequate, but as mentioned earlier, it's
> not been kept up to date. Because it is a lot of work even just to maintain
> what we already have.
>
>
> On 9 September 2013 13:12, Michael Jerris <mike at jerris.com> wrote:
>
> Thats correct, every time someone comes around suggesting we get package
> in the distro repos, I mention this needs to get done first and if someone
> wants to do the work on that then we can discuss what else is necessary to
> get packages upstream, and them everyone realizes its a lot of work and
> wanders off without offering to help, so it probably will never happen.
>  I'm not sure it actually adds any value anyways.
>
> Mike
>
> On Sep 9, 2013, at 4:32 AM, Andrew Cassidy <
> andrew at cassidywebservices.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Last I heard there were concerns around some of the custom patches to
> upstream libraries used in FreeSWITCH that was blocking getting packages
> into the official repo?
>
> The other issue is by getting into debian repositories, we're pretty much
> obliged to backport security patches between debian releases.
>
>
> On 8 September 2013 06:39, Gabriel Gunderson <gabe at gundy.org> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 5:52 PM, Karl Schmidt <karl at xtronics.com> wrote:
> > On 09/07/2013 04:16 PM, Gabriel Gunderson wrote:
> >> On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 7:27 PM, Karl Schmidt <karl at xtronics.com> wrote:
> >>> My take is 286 packages is too many. Compare it to Apache - lots of
> complicated bits can be added
> >>> - but the package count isn't even close.
> >>
> >> Why is that too many? Being granular is a good thing.
> >
> > I think you are missing my point - Debian will not accept 280 packages
> for freeswitch. Ask the
> > ftp-masters. The packaging system is not intended to provide
> fine-grained granularity.
>
> There was no discussion of Debian accepting packages or not. So, yeah,
> I would have missed that point.
>
>
>
> > I am quite thankful to the maintainers - and my advice is an attempt to
> help them get freeswitch
> > into Debian.
>
> They're making lots of progress in this area. Of course, any help is
> welcomed.
>
>
> Best,
> Gabe
>
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