Hi,

Ondrej Grover wrote:
> Hi, I would like to point out that there appears to be a new semi-official
> upstream fork
> https://github.com/sshuttle/sshuttle
> It is actively developed and maintained by a community of users whereas the
> original upstream hasn't received an update since 2012.
> See this thread for details
> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/sshuttle/pipk8HV7rw4

Interesting read. So this is a quite recent fork. So it would be nice
to see sshuttle to change the upstream sources and homepage header for
the Stretch release.

On https://github.com/sshuttle/sshuttle/releases there's a new
upstream release 0.71 from just a week ago.

> If you decide to package this version, please note that the README.md is
> cluttered in the new upstream repo and does not reflect the dependencies very
> well. Specifically, PyXAPI is optional and used only with --method=tproxy.
> Autossh also isn't required at all, only the README.md and some ugly debian
> build script mentions it and it is not used anywhere in the actual code.

Very ugly, indeed. It hardcodes an ancient version (0.2) and "i386" as
architecture even though sshuttle doesn't seem to have any C code in
there. (The one in Debian clearly doesn't.)

Stumbled upon this bug report because someone on the sshuttle mailing
list used a package built from that horrible script and wrecked his
desktop because installing it on amd64 removed python (and installed
python:i386 via multiarch).

Why can't people learn that .deb packages must be built with the
proper tools and not some hacked shell script using cp and friends?
*sigh*

Thanks for maintaining sshuttle in Debian! (And hence for having an
excuse to not use such scripts! ;-)

P.S.: Was there a reason to not package the last release from the
original author, 0.61? It seemed to be released just a few weeks after
0.54 which Debian currently has.

                Regards, Axel
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