[Pkg-swan-devel] Bug#848891: Bug#848891: Remove outdated code

Yves-Alexis Perez corsac at debian.org
Tue Dec 20 15:27:42 UTC 2016


Hi Christian, thanks for your bug report(s).

On Tue, 2016-12-20 at 16:15 +0100, Christian Ehrhardt wrote:
> In d/strongswan-starter.postinst there seems to be code that is no more
> needed:
>   - section about runlevel changes
>   - entire section on opportunistic encryption - this was never used
> 
> Also the debconf for the inc file is IMHO not working.
> cat /var/lib/strongswan/ipsec.conf.inc
>       #include /etc/ipsec.d/examples/oe.conf
> That file is not existing (and not created) on my Debian-sid system.
> 
> I tried to get as much as possible from its debconf but it does only add
> the disabled OE.
> $ dpkg-reconfigure strongswan-starter -p low
>   Disabling opportunistic encryption (OE) in config file ... already
> disabled

Yes, I think the ipsec.conf.inc was supposed to be handled by debconf, but I'm
not sure how it was supposed to work (it was before my time). I agree that
simplifying the packaging and removing unused stuff is a good idea, and this
is a start indeed.

This change has been sitting in Ubuntu for how long?

Regards,
-- 
Yves-Alexis
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