[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#1001073: Bug#1001073: network-manager-openvpn: [bullseye] importing ovpn file using GUI results in non-functional VPN (fails due to auth timeout)

[Michael Biebl]

On 03.12.21 19:07, Nicholas D Steeves wrote:

> I then created a local bpo of network-manager-openvpn_1.8.16-1, and
> installed it, to see if this would solve the problem.  It solved the
> problem.
> 
> The fix for bullseye should cherry-picked from upstream VCS to make
> this package usable on Debian stable, because "The Debian Desktop
> doesn't work with commercial VPNs" harms Debian's reputation IMHO.

Right. Could you run a git bisect to find the commit which we need to 
cherry-pick=
Uploading a new upstream release 1.8.16 is probably not something the 
stable release managers will ack but a targetted fix is more likely to 
be accepted.

Regards,
Michael

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