[asterisk-users] Asterisk 1.8 Packages for Debian and Ubuntu

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 01:59:54PM +0200, Daniel Pocock wrote:
> 
> 
> >> - upgrade policy - is it intended that someone who has Debian 6 with
> >> the existing Asterisk 1.6 packages (from Debian's maintainer) can just
> >> upgrade to the Digium package without moving or changing any config?
> > 
> > There is nothing specific about the packages that is going to make this situation any better or worse than any method of upgrading from Asterisk 1.6.X to Asterisk 1.8.  Issues related to version compatibility can be found in the UPGRADE*.txt files in the Asterisk source.
> > 
> > http://svn.asterisk.org/view/asterisk/trunk/UPGRADE-1.8.txt?view=markup
> > 
> 
> Apart from the 1.8 release notes though, there is no need to do any
> specific changes when going from the Debian-maintained 1.6 package to
> the Digium-maintained 1.8?
> 
> I tried the packages (clean install) on one machine yesterday and I
> noticed that they depend on some of the asterisk packages within the
> Debian archive, while other packages get pulled down from the Digium
> archive.  Is that intended?
> 
> I tried to do another machine today and found that your key has gone
> missing from the key server:
> 
> # apt-key adv --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 175E41DF
> Executing: gpg --ignore-time-conflict --no-options --no-default-keyring
> --secret-keyring /etc/apt/secring.gpg --trustdb-name
> /etc/apt/trustdb.gpg --keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg --primary-keyring
> /etc/apt/trusted.gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 175E41DF
> gpg: requesting key 175E41DF from hkp server subkeys.pgp.net
> gpgkeys: key 175E41DF not found on keyserver
> gpg: no valid OpenPGP data found.
> gpg: Total number processed: 0

The key does not have to be there for you to trust it (anybody can
upload a key there). Though having it there (and having it signed by
more people) would naturally help.

Another issue: the package name is different 'asterisk-1.8' vs.
'asterisk'.

It has:

  Package: asterisk-1.8
  Provides: asterisk
  Conflicts: asterisk (<<1.8.0)

Whereas other packages are named 'asterisk-*' (asterisk-h323,
asterisk-dahdi, etc.). So it deviates from the Debian naming convention.
And would still not allow co-install with a future asterisk-1.10
package.

Also note
http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#s-replaces

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