Re: [Pkg-swan-devel] say goodbye to network-manager-strongswan?

2014-07-28 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On mer., 2014-07-16 at 15:08 +0200, Romain Francoise wrote: On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 03:40:13PM +0300, Riku Voipio wrote: Since you seem to know the software well, and it is important for you, perhaps you can take over maintainence of the package? The current maintainer doesn't seem to be

Re: [Pkg-swan-devel] say goodbye to network-manager-strongswan?

2014-07-28 Thread Harald Dunkel
On 07/28/14 11:38, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: I don't currently use the network-manager strongSwan plugin but that's mostly because it doesn't work. AFAICT it didn't work due to #741415. Today its broken again. It says Could not find VPN plugin service for

Re: say goodbye to network-manager-strongswan?

2014-07-17 Thread Harald Dunkel
On 07/16/14 17:56, Thomas Goirand wrote: To try to kill your frustration, I have sponsored the upload of your fix to the delayed/10 queue. If everything goes well, then in 15 days, network-manager-strongswan will be back in Jessie. Thanx very much for your help Regards Harri -- To

Re: say goodbye to network-manager-strongswan?

2014-07-17 Thread Harald Dunkel
On 07/16/14 17:56, Thomas Goirand wrote: BTW, it feels weird that the package build-depends on debhelper when it really is using CDBS. The debian/copyright is also quite wrong, as it doesn't include the copyright notice for the GPL v2 (and I believe that's mandatory, right?). Not commenting

Re: say goodbye to network-manager-strongswan?

2014-07-17 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 07/17/2014 06:40 PM, Harald Dunkel wrote: On 07/16/14 17:56, Thomas Goirand wrote: BTW, it feels weird that the package build-depends on debhelper when it really is using CDBS. The debian/copyright is also quite wrong, as it doesn't include the copyright notice for the GPL v2 (and I

say goodbye to network-manager-strongswan?

2014-07-16 Thread Harald Dunkel
Hi folks, how comes that network-manager-strongswan has been dropped from testing? This package is extremely important for road- warrior setups using IPsec. Regards Harri -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: say goodbye to network-manager-strongswan?

2014-07-16 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Wed, July 16, 2014 12:17, Harald Dunkel wrote: how comes that network-manager-strongswan has been dropped from testing? This package is extremely important for road- warrior setups using IPsec. You can find that out for any package on the PTS:

Re: say goodbye to network-manager-strongswan?

2014-07-16 Thread Simon McVittie
On 16/07/14 11:17, Harald Dunkel wrote: how comes that network-manager-strongswan has been dropped from testing? https://packages.qa.debian.org/n/network-manager-strongswan.html says: network-manager-strongswan (source, i386, amd64, armel, armhf, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390x) has new bugs!

Re: say goodbye to network-manager-strongswan?

2014-07-16 Thread Harald Dunkel
Hi Thijs, On 07/16/14 12:35, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: As it turns out, this package got removed because it has an unfixed release critical bug (which interestingly enough you yourself reported). When this bug is fixed, the package will transition back to testing. Of course I know that I

Re: say goodbye to network-manager-strongswan?

2014-07-16 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Wed, July 16, 2014 13:05, Harald Dunkel wrote: On 07/16/14 12:35, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: As it turns out, this package got removed because it has an unfixed release critical bug (which interestingly enough you yourself reported). When this bug is fixed, the package will transition back to

Re: say goodbye to network-manager-strongswan?

2014-07-16 Thread Harald Dunkel
Hi Simon, On 07/16/14 12:36, Simon McVittie wrote: If the change you proposed works correctly, an NMU seems appropriate. I am using the fix in a private package since I created the bug report. Seems to work fine (using strongswan 5.x). I have appended a diff to the bug report. Hope this

Re: say goodbye to network-manager-strongswan?

2014-07-16 Thread Riku Voipio
On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 01:05:26PM +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote: Hi Thijs, On 07/16/14 12:35, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: As it turns out, this package got removed because it has an unfixed release critical bug (which interestingly enough you yourself reported). When this bug is fixed, the

Re: [Pkg-swan-devel] say goodbye to network-manager-strongswan?

2014-07-16 Thread Romain Francoise
On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 03:40:13PM +0300, Riku Voipio wrote: Since you seem to know the software well, and it is important for you, perhaps you can take over maintainence of the package? The current maintainer doesn't seem to be active (no upload since 2012..). Alternatively the package could

Re: say goodbye to network-manager-strongswan?

2014-07-16 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Riku, On Mittwoch, 16. Juli 2014, Riku Voipio wrote: This a side-effect from Debian's policy that discourages fixing bugs in other maintainers packages via NMUs. Somehow, it is felt better to remove packages from testing than possibly offending the maintainer with an unwarranted NMU. Huh,

Re: say goodbye to network-manager-strongswan?

2014-07-16 Thread Harald Dunkel
On 07/16/14 15:17, Holger Levsen wrote: Especially if the NMU is properly done (eg documented in the BTS, uploaded to DELAYED-foo, etc) I've hardly seen any complaints in recent years. Surely I could have done better in providing a clean fix to #741415, making it more easy for the Debian

Re: say goodbye to network-manager-strongswan?

2014-07-16 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi Riku, Holger, Holger Levsen hol...@layer-acht.org (2014-07-16): On Mittwoch, 16. Juli 2014, Riku Voipio wrote: This a side-effect from Debian's policy that discourages fixing bugs in other maintainers packages via NMUs. Somehow, it is felt better to remove packages from testing than

Re: say goodbye to network-manager-strongswan?

2014-07-16 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 07/16/2014 10:06 PM, Harald Dunkel wrote: On 07/16/14 15:17, Holger Levsen wrote: Especially if the NMU is properly done (eg documented in the BTS, uploaded to DELAYED-foo, etc) I've hardly seen any complaints in recent years. Surely I could have done better in providing a clean fix

Re: say goodbye to network-manager-strongswan?

2014-07-16 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2014-07-16, Thomas Goirand z...@debian.org wrote: BTW, it feels weird that the package build-depends on debhelper when it really is using CDBS. The debian/copyright is also quite wrong, as it If you use cdbs' debhelper module (which runs the various dh_foo commands), you need to ensure

Re: say goodbye to network-manager-strongswan?

2014-07-16 Thread gregor herrmann
On Wed, 16 Jul 2014 16:06:06 +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote: Especially if the NMU is properly done (eg documented in the BTS, uploaded to DELAYED-foo, etc) I've hardly seen any complaints in recent years. Surely I could have done better in providing a clean fix to #741415, making it more