[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#910511: network-manager-openvpn: openvpn 2.4 in stable supports tls-crypt, but nm-openvpn 1.2.8 in stable doesn't

[Gijs Molenaar]

Package: network-manager-openvpn
Version: 1.2.8-2
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

I'm developing a UI wrapper around various platforms for an open VPN service.
Debian 9 is one of our targetted platforms. We have tls-crypt enabled for our
service, which works on Debian 9 since it is bundeled with openVPN 2.4.0. The
problem is the network-manager-openvpn package, which doesn't seem to have
support for this setting. This is a bit of a pitty, since technically it should
work. The limitation becomes apparant when you for example import a .ovpn file
in the UI with a tls-crypt statement in it. The import will fail.

It looks like network-manager-openvpn > 1.2.10 actually has support for the
tls-crypt statement.

Now i'm not sure if this is the right spot to request such a thing, but is it
somehow possible to get network-manager-openvpn > 1.2.10 into stable? Important
security features are now not available to stable users, while technically it
is supported.

Greetings,

 - Gijs




-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.5
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-8-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages network-manager-openvpn depends on:
ii  adduser          3.115
ii  libc6            2.24-11+deb9u3
ii  libglib2.0-0     2.50.3-2
ii  libnm0           1.6.2-3
ii  network-manager  1.6.2-3
ii  openvpn          2.4.0-6+deb9u2

network-manager-openvpn recommends no packages.

network-manager-openvpn suggests no packages.

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