[Pkg-swan-devel] Bug#861037: Bug#861037: Bug#861037: Bug#861037: [PATCH 00/12] New upstream release 5.5.2

Alex Hürter shorty1483 at googlemail.com
Sat Apr 29 17:30:47 UTC 2017


>As you're already aware, I'm not a huge fan of multiplying plugins
packages.
>And while I can understand (and really feel sorry for them) people might
have
>requirements, I'm not personally interested at all with complex plugins.
IPsec
>is often considered complex, and I'm pretty sure having a gazillion plugin
>won't help. I really think have a simple install anyone can setup would
help a
>lot more.

>At the end of the day, I'm not really interested in spending time on this.
I
>won't prevent anyone to work on this provided the integration is simple
and I
>doesn't waste my time.

Could at least the plugins be enabled that are in the Strongswan
configuration
examples on the homepage (e.g. ntru and curve25519)?

Regards
Alex

2017-04-28 21:28 GMT+02:00 Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac at debian.org>:

> On Fri, 2017-04-28 at 09:44 -0700, Gerald Turner wrote:
> > Among the flurry of BTS mail I triggered last Sunday, did you happen to
> > catch my offers to:
>
> Honestly I'm a bit behind schedule so I noticed mails but didn't read them
> yet, sorry. Thanks for your work anyway.
> >
> >   1. Work on debian/copyright until it's near-perfect (I'm confident the
> >      work on I did on 5.5.1->5.5.2 delta is correct, but while working
> >      on that I noticed inconsistencies since older releases, which I
> >      mostly ignored).  I had done something similar with hostapd/
> >      wpa_supplicant a few years ago with guidance from Stefan
> >      Lippers-Hollmann.
>
> Looks interesting at first sight, yes.
> >
> >   2. Create separate packages per plugin (with extra attention paid to
> >      Depends, Recommends, Suggests fields), at a minimum create separate
> >      attr-sql/sqlite/mysql plugin packages (bug #718302), or maximally
> >      create a separate package for every plugin, or something in
> >      between.  Ultimately enabling additional plugins that myself and
> >      several other users have been requesting.
>
> As you're already aware, I'm not a huge fan of multiplying plugins
> packages.
> And while I can understand (and really feel sorry for them) people might
> have
> requirements, I'm not personally interested at all with complex plugins.
> IPsec
> is often considered complex, and I'm pretty sure having a gazillion plugin
> won't help. I really think have a simple install anyone can setup would
> help a
> lot more.
>
> At the end of the day, I'm not really interested in spending time on this.
> I
> won't prevent anyone to work on this provided the integration is simple
> and I
> doesn't waste my time.
>
> Also, like for all the work Christian Ehrhardt did (and I hope you checked
> it), nothing here matter until Stretch is released, so there's really no
> rush.
>
> Regards,
> --
> Yves-Alexis
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