Bug#596000: unblock: asterisk/1:1.6.2.9-2
On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 10:16:39PM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-09-07 at 22:50 +0300, Faidon Liambotis wrote:
> > * Remove useless binaries aelparse, conf2ael and muted.
>
> Why are they useless?
I was trying to document those strange utilities. I noticed that running
aelparse either no arguments, '-h', '--help' or whatever just
gives a huge dump of output. When I asked upstream, while attempting
to write a man page, if it shouldn't have a more useful reply, I was
answered that it is a debugging usility anyway. It can only parse the
hardwired names extensions.conf and extensions.ael and such.
In response they were removed upstream altogether. Though not from the
then-feature-frozen branch 1.6.2.0, which was almost a year ago.
Sadly I didn't notice this ommosion until later on and only fixed it in
our SVN later.
Later on I noticed the package still includes them and wrote a trivial
patch to remove them.
conf2ael and aelparse are two mostly internal utilities. I do not recall
any recommendation to use them on any mailing list. They force a very
inconvinient files layout and their defaultas are bad. conf2ael
segfaults on my system (just noticed it while writing this mail. Just a
general indication that nobody cares).
muted: Hardly useful. Written mostly for internal usage within Digium.
Uses /etc/muted.conf, which is a not policiy-compliant location. Does
not have any user-defined config file. I also don't like the
namespace-polluting name.
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