[Pkg-swan-devel] Bug#1098714: strongswan-starter should depends on strongswan-charon

[Jongmin Kim]

Package: strongswan-starter
Version: 6.0.0-2
Severity: important

When I run the command: "ipsec start", it fails to locate the necessary
binary.

    $ ipsec start
    IKE daemon '/usr/lib/ipsec/charon' not found

It appears that "strongswan-starter", built as /usr/sbin/ipsec,
locates and uses /usr/lib/ipsec/charon [1].

    [1] (src/starter/starter.c line 52) https://salsa.debian.org/debian/strongswan/-/blob/debian/master/src/starter/starter.c#L52

The binary /usr/sbin/ipsec is in "strongswan-starter"[2],
while /usr/lib/ipsec/charon is in "strongswan-charon"[3].

    [2] (/usr/sbin/ipsec       in "strongswan-starter") https://salsa.debian.org/debian/strongswan/-/blob/debian/master/debian/strongswan-starter.install#L5
    [3] (/usr/lib/ipsec/charon in "strongswan-charon" ) https://salsa.debian.org/debian/strongswan/-/blob/debian/master/debian/strongswan-charon.install#L1

Currently, "strongswan-charon" is listed under "Recommends:" for
"strongswan-starter"[4]. Shouldn't it be listed under "Depends:" instead?

    [4] (d/control line 219) https://salsa.debian.org/debian/strongswan/-/blob/debian/master/debian/control#L219

It was in "Depends:" when the latter was in "strongswan-ike"[5] 11 years
ago.

    [5] (-ike splitted into -charon and -libcharon) https://salsa.debian.org/debian/strongswan/-/commit/c707682e759fbd97b9603f650a491ef086f7fd5f#58ef006ab62b83b4bec5d81fe5b32c3b4c2d1cc2_178_176

Please forgive me if I am mistaken, as I do not fully understand the
context of these packages.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.12.15-amd64 (SMP w/22 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages strongswan-starter depends on:
ii  adduser                3.141
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.89
ii  init-system-helpers    1.68
ii  libc6                  2.40-7
ii  libstrongswan          6.0.0-2
ii  sysvinit-utils         3.14-1

Versions of packages strongswan-starter recommends:
pn  strongswan-charon  <none>

strongswan-starter suggests no packages.

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/ipsec.secrets [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/etc/ipsec.secrets'

-- debconf information excluded