<div dir="ltr">FYI<br><br><div><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Ramiro Morales</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cramm0@gmail.com">cramm0@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 12:28 PM<br>Subject: Backport of freeSwan 5.5.0 to Debian 8<br>To: <a href="mailto:debian-backports@lists.debian.org">debian-backports@lists.debian.org</a><br><br><br><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Hi all,<br><br></div>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.<br><br></div><div>So I backported version 5.5.0-2 (currently available in testing). The changes introduced are available at <a href="https://github.com/ramiro/strongswan-debian-package" target="_blank">https://github.com/ramiro/stro<wbr>ngswan-debian-package</a> on the backport-to-jessie branch (changes introduced can be seen at <a href="https://github.com/ramiro/strongswan-debian-package/compare/backport-to-jessie?expand=1" target="_blank">https://github.com/ramiro/stro<wbr>ngswan-debian-package/compare/<wbr>backport-to-jessie?expand=1</a>).<br><br></div><div>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.<br><br></div><div>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!<br><br></div>Regards,<br clear="all"><div><br></div>PS: I've used the package name modification strategy described at <a href="https://backports.debian.org/Contribute/#index7h3" target="_blank">https://backports.debian.org/C<wbr>ontribute/#index7h3</a> but using ~rm8+N instead of ~bpo8+N. This is trivial to change.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="m_-2778151297598594170gmail_signature">Ramiro Morales<br>@ramiromorales</div>
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</div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Ramiro Morales<br>@ramiromorales</div>
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