[Pkg-swan-devel] Fwd: Backport of freeSwan 5.5.0 to Debian 8

[Ramiro Morales]

FYI

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From: Ramiro Morales <cramm0 at gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 12:28 PM
Subject: Backport of freeSwan 5.5.0 to Debian 8
To: debian-backports at lists.debian.org


Hi all,

I needed to experiment with newer versions of freeSwan as we weresuffering
some issues (interperability problems when using IKEv1, hanging/clocking
ipsec command invocations, etc.) with our setup of 5.2.1 as shipped with
jessie.

So I backported version 5.5.0-2 (currently available in testing). The
changes introduced are available at https://github.com/ramiro/stro
ngswan-debian-package on the backport-to-jessie branch (changes introduced
can be seen at https://github.com/ramiro/strongswan-debian-package/compare/
backport-to-jessie?expand=1).

I intend to keep it up to date with upsteam (debian packaging) fatal or
serious security updates. I'm posting this in case there are other people
in the same situation and in case there is a way to contribute to an
offiicial Debian backport.

Actually, work done is muniscule compared with the big effort I'm sure the
stronSwan packaging DD team should be doing. The packages are in great
shape and this made my life easier. Thanks goes to them!

Regards,

PS: I've used the package name modification strategy described at
https://backports.debian.org/Contribute/#index7h3 but using ~rm8+N instead
of ~bpo8+N. This is trivial to change.

-- 
Ramiro Morales
@ramiromorales



-- 
Ramiro Morales
@ramiromorales
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