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Written by Nivex 🐧 📻 on 2025-01-29 at 16:58

Today's "I need to get this out of my head so I can let it go" rambling:

https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/baresip

Debian was packaging 1.0.0 for ages. Before the last distro release (so, about 2 years ago), when faced with removal from the archive because of an aging dependency, they upgraded the package to 1.1.0. Upstream is actively making new releases. They were well into the 2.x series at that time. 3.19.0 is current as of this writing.

I joined the debian-voip IRC channel and inquired about this. They said something to the effect of "sometimes it's better to package something old rather than nothing at all." There was no elaboration on what the conditions surrounding that "sometimes" are. I may have made the mistake of remarking about this being why the moniker "Debian Stale" has come to be. Things went defensive and there was no productive discussion.

While I understand that Debian is a volunteer project, it seems like there ought to be better policies for what software stays in the repositories. Or at least more consistent: Asterisk was removed from bookworm because it wasn't being maintained.

So here we are approaching another freeze window and impending release with no mention of an updated package in the works. I don't have the spoons to go chasing this down again, so I guess I keep running the old version since it does still function.

This is another one of those things that was rattling around in my head, and @bert_hubert 's post about testing with newer software finally nudged me to write it out.

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