Re: asterisk support

[Brian May <bam@debian.org>]

"Santiago R.R." <santiagorr@riseup.net> writes:

> Not sure about the reasons for squeeze, but Thorsten has already handled
> one upload for wheezy. You can look a two mail threads about its history
> on wheezy:
>
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts/2016/04/msg00011.html
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts/2016/04/msg00106.html

Thanks for the pointer. I searched the mailing lists, but somehow missed
the above. Looks like the most relevant email was:

 From: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>:
 Subject: Re: asterisk in LTS
 To: Thorsten Alteholz <debian@alteholz.de>
 Cc: debian-lts@lists.debian.org
 Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2016 09:04:50 +0200

 Hi,

 On Mon, 04 Apr 2016, Thorsten Alteholz wrote:
 > during the last discussions about LTS support, asterisk was not really
 > mentioned. As there is already #816042[1], I wonder whether asterisk is
 > still used and/or needed in Wheezy. So whoever want asterisk to be supported
 > speak now or forever hold your peace.

 There is at least one LTS sponsor who is using asterisk. And a I know
 another sponsor who uses maintains it for their own needs and might
 be willing to share their work.

 I'll pass you the details by private email so that you can get in
 touch.
-- 
Brian May <bam@debian.org>