[strongSwan] strongSwan 5.0 packages / Debian wheezy backports

[Daniel Pocock]

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On 13/07/13 11:12, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> On ven., 2013-07-12 at 14:03 +0200, Daniel Pocock wrote:
>> 
>> I've also published some notes on my blog yesterday about
>> getting strongSwan 5.0 packages onto Debian wheezy before they
>> reach backports:
>> 
>> http://danielpocock.com/using-debcheckout-to-build-strongswan-5.0-on-debian-wheezy
>>
>>
>> 
I'm sure the Debian package maintainers would be grateful for any
>> feedback from people who use this or enhance the packaging in any
>> way, debcheckout makes it very easy
>> 
> 
> To be honest, I'm not sure we'll really handle bug reports for
> backports right now. In any case, I'm not too worried about people
> upgrading from charon 4 to charon 5, I'm more worried about people
> migrating from pluto to charon.

I think the migration from pluto to charon is covered here:

http://wiki.strongswan.org/projects/strongswan/wiki/CharonPlutoIKEv1

and there will be issues for some people who use the features
referenced there, although some of them are just a matter of changed
parameter names.  Given it is a major upgrade I don't think it's a
maintainer's job to be responsible for every permutation of the config.

I did mention in my blog that people should make sure their bug
reports clearly state if they are using the version from a source
build or backports - as with anything in Debian, there is no
obligation on the maintainer to act on the bug reports, but I feel
that having people pool their issues in the bug reporting tool makes
it a useful resource for the wider community as well.

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