On 20.06.2017 18:08, Samuli Seppänen wrote: Hi,
I haven't seen the original mail, no idea why > Thanks for nominating me :). > > On 20/06/2017 18:40, Javier Santos wrote: >> June 20, 2017 >> >> Hi guys, >> >> Our friend, Samuli, has been creating .deb files of the latest >> version of OpenVPN (Community Edition) for quite some time. >> >> I proposed that Samuli be the official maintainer of said software >> for Debian. Debian users benefit because: >> >> 1. updates are available on the same day that the Windows version >> is posted for download. There is a significant time gap between the >> version created by Samuli and the one that is available on Debian's >> backport-repository. As an example look at the time when Samuli >> made the latest version of OpenVPN available and compare it with >> the time that the backported version of Debian Jessie is made >> available by its official maintainer. > > Our OpenVPN packages don't have to conform to Debian's packaging > policies. That is part of the reason why we can publish new Debian > packages at OpenVPN release time. Having Debian "in the middle" would > in all likelihood make OpenVPN releases more time-consuming and > tricky to organize. To explain this a bit more, it is quite impossible to release new OpenVPN upstream versions within Debian stable. Debian policy is that as soon as the development of a Debian release is frozen no new upstream releases are introduced. Only security fixes and important crash fixes are allowed to be (selectively) backported while retaining the version number. So that's why Debian Stretch has 2.4.0 plus security patches up to 2.4.2 (2.4.3 is probably pending the security team right now). Note that Debian unstable does not suffer from this, except during freeze. 2.4.3 has been uploaded today, see https://tracker.debian.org/news/850579 Also note that the maintainer is looking for someone to take over maintainership, see https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=865555 . >> 2. there is no need to fetch updates from a separate repository >> outside of Debian ones. Users can just install backported version >> from Debian backport-repository. > > The Debian backports repository brings with it lots of "other stuff" > besides OpenVPN. People would need to set the "Pin-Priority" > correctly to avoid accidentally upgrading more than what they want.# Not quite, the backports repo is marked "NotAutomatic", so it should not pull in new versions unconditionally. Bernhard ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Openvpn-users mailing list Openvpn-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openvpn-users
