[asterisk-dev] What is test-law?

[George Joseph]

On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 2:18 AM Alexander Traud <pabstraud at compuserve.com>
wrote:

> In 2009, Asterisk 1.8 introduced a media format called "G.711 test-law"
> [1]. Furthermore, in chan_sip, default_format_capabilities mentioned
> testlaw. Five years later, Asterisk 13 removed testlaw from there [2].
> However, it remained in general.
>
> For me, it looks like not just dead code but a merge mistake back in the
> year 2009. It looks like a format which was used to white-box test the
> change back then. The old "Review Board" is no longer online, so I cannot
> check any possible comments there.
>
> Any idea? I feel it is worth removal because it can create chaos [3].
>

I don't see any reference to it in the testsuite so I _think_ it'd be OK to
remove.


>
> [1] <
> https://github.com/asterisk/asterisk/commit/d8e0c584372c51b585a52efbe2375861bc09bdcf#diff-5fda6a239e770b39ac96e677778e231fb79dc190b473c9724d21997ae9fca3bf
> >
> [2] <
> https://github.com/asterisk/asterisk/commit/a2c912e9972c91973ea66902d217746133f96026#diff-b46867aafe8df97c4c3e15a223f26dde97354b72e649bf6cb73215ac657364a2
> >
> [3] <https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-29185>
>
>
>
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