[asterisk-users] Debian 7/Asterisk TLS bug and others

[Paul Belanger]

On 12-08-10 04:47 PM, Daniel Pocock wrote:
>
>
> Debian 7 is currently in the `freeze' status with 1.8.13 - that means
> Debian 7 is very likely to release 1.8.13 and be carrying it for the
> next 2-3 years (typical lifetime of a Debian release)
>
> I run 1.8.8.  TLS has a bug: it fails to receive BYE over the TLS
> connection from my Polycom phone.
>
> I tried 1.8.13, the version in Debian 7, and found a more severe bug:
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=683956
> The TLS clients can't connect at all, this looks like a really bad
> regression from 1.8.8
>
> I've looked at 1.8.(14, 15, 16-rc1) and their changelogs don't mention
> any fix.
>
> Debian is very conservative about accepting updates during the `freeze'
> process - they will most likely want to see a 1.8.13.2 release with ONLY
> the most essential fixes
>
> a) is anyone else aware of these bugs?
>
> b) what essential changes should go into 1.8.13.2 for Debian?
>
We don't need to release a 1.8.13.2 release of Asterisk.  Once the issue 
has been fixed in the 1.8 release branch, it would just be back-ported 
into a Debian patch for the package.

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