[asterisk-users] Asterisk from Debian Packages

[Paul]

Carlos Navarro wrote:

>On Sun, 10 Dec 2006 11:52:58 -0500
>"Phil Finkler" <PhilF at iqconsultinginc.com> wrote:
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>>I've gotten asterisk installed on Debian only to realize that the
>>packaged version is 1.0.7.  Is there a reason why they're not up to a
>>1.2.x release?  I'm building a system for production and I'm wondering
>>if I should remain at this old version or if there are any serious
>>issues with 1.2.13 on Debian?  Should I be able to do an apt-get from
>>unstable and get 1.2.13 and be on my happy way?
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>You had gotten asterisk installed on "Sarge" Debian with the official packages.
>You can find for asterisk 1.2.13 unofficial packages or you must take the
>sources of asterisk 1.2.13 from Etch, modify some dependencies and generate the
>deb files.
>Other way is update from Sarge to Etch.
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If you run etch before it is released as stable, you might run into
problems that are over your head. I have run into a few that weren't
over my head but they were very inconvenient.