Hi, Thanks for nominating me :).
On 20/06/2017 18:40, Javier Santos wrote: > June 20, 2017 > > Hi guys, > > Our friend, Samuli, has been creating .deb files of the latest version of > OpenVPN (Community Edition) for quite some time. > > I proposed that Samuli be the official maintainer of said software for > Debian. Debian users benefit because: > > 1. updates are available on the same day that the Windows version is posted > for download. There is a significant time gap between the version created by > Samuli and the one that is available on Debian's backport-repository. As an > example look at the time when Samuli made the latest version of OpenVPN > available and compare it with the time that the backported version of Debian > Jessie is made available by its official maintainer. Our OpenVPN packages don't have to conform to Debian's packaging policies. That is part of the reason why we can publish new Debian packages at OpenVPN release time. Having Debian "in the middle" would in all likelihood make OpenVPN releases more time-consuming and tricky to organize. > > 2. there is no need to fetch updates from a separate repository outside of > Debian ones. Users can just install backported version from Debian > backport-repository. The Debian backports repository brings with it lots of "other stuff" besides OpenVPN. People would need to set the "Pin-Priority" correctly to avoid accidentally upgrading more than what they want. Further details on pinning (also applicable to Debian): <https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PinningHowto> When people add our (=OpenVPN project's) apt repository they get just what they want: up-to-date OpenVPN packages. Moreover, they can choose which version they want to have: - stable - testing (includes alpha/beta/rc releases) - release/2.3 - release/2.4 These repositories serve different use-cases. So having a completely separate repository actually makes sense. > > Kindly reply to this email if you support this motion. > > Thanks. > > Javier > -- Samuli Seppänen Community Manager OpenVPN Technologies, Inc irc freenode net: mattock
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