ports/96315: Asterisk/libpri should have a separate bristuff port/version

[Thomas Sandford]

>Number:         96315
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       Asterisk/libpri should have a separate bristuff port/version
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Apr 25 13:00:29 GMT 2006
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Thomas Sandford
>Release:        FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD almaz.paradisegreen.co.uk 5.4-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE #0: Su
n May 15 12:31:08 BST 2005 root at almaz.paradisegreen.co.uk:/usr/src/sys/i386/comp
ile/SMP i386

>Description:
At present the asterisk and libpri ports include a customised version of a very large patchset called "bristuff".

This patchset is Asterisk version specific and therefore causes significant delays in updating the FreeBSD port of the fast-moving Asterisk project.

The bristuff patches are only of significant use to a subsection of Asterisk users (mainly European users where ISDN-2/ Basic-Rate ISDN is more common, and then only to those who actually want to use it with BRI).
>How-To-Repeat:
Asterisk is at the time of filing this PR at 1.2.7.1

The FreeBSD port is at 1.2.4
>Fix:
I suggest a repo-copy of 

net/asterisk

to 

net/asterisk-bristuff

and of

misc/libpri

to

misc/libpri-bristuff

(this would mirror the approach taken by at least one Linux distribution, Debian).

The "old" net/asterisk and misc/libpri ports could then have the bristuff patches removed and be updated in a timely fashion to follow the asterisk release sequence, whilst the -bristuff versions would continue to be maintained as now.

I would be willing to take over as maintainer of the non-bristuff ports if the existing maintainer (sobomax) were not willing to maintain the parallel versions.
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