Bug#389591: ITP: freeswitch -- Modular Media Switching Software Library and Soft-Switch Application

[Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>]

Hello William, Ken.

It's been more than 2 years ago when this debian bug #389591 has been
update for the last time, changing its status from RFP to ITP (request
for packaging into intention to package).

Has anything changed since that time?

I'm trying to run freeswitch on debian now, but it seems it is still in
very far from acceptable state, because of the habit of embedding 3rd
party libraries when needed or not.  I can try to clean some of that
up (for example, libtiff, pcre, ldns, curl, speex, opus, ldap - at
least - should be easy to replace with system (debian-provided) libs),
but if something is already done, maybe I may try to use that instead
of re-doing things again.

Or are there no plans to make the software within linux distributions
exist anymore, or maybe that's a bad idea somehow?

(Yes I've read recent (and not so recent) posts about embedding 3rd
party libs into the distribution).

Thanks,

/mjt