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Re: asterisk support



On Wed, 23 Nov 2016, Brian May wrote:
> I noticed that Asterisk was marked EOL for Debian squeeze; just wondered
> what the reasons were, and if these reasons apply to wheezy?

The reasons were just that it's a non-trivial package to support. It
tends to have regular security issues and upstream support to old version
is not very great AFAIK.

That said it's an important piece of software in many IT systems and
we ought to try to support it as best as we can IMO.

Cheers,
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