Hi, On Fri, Jun 30, 2023 at 03:32:30PM +0200, Stella Ashburne wrote: > > Sent: Saturday, June 24, 2023 at 3:55 PM > > From: "Gert Doering" <g...@greenie.muc.de> > > To: "Stella Ashburne" <rewe...@gmx.com> > > Cc: openvpn-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > Subject: Re: [Openvpn-users] Request: A *.deb package for OpenVPN 2.5.9 on > > Debian 12/Bookworm > > > > > > I'm aware of that, I maintain that file :-) - for Linux users, there is > > nothing really interesting in 2.6.3 -> 2.6.4. The bugs fixed in 2.6.4 > > affect Windows, MacOS/pkcs#11 and Android users. > > Sorry, could you be a bit more specific? By "file" did you mean > "package"? To the best of my knowledge, the package called "openvpn > 2.6.3-1" is maintained by Bernhard Schmidt. Your name is not listed > on the page referenced by > https://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs//main/o/openvpn/openvpn_2.6.3-1_changelog
The text I wrote refered to the "Changes.rst" you pointed to - and indeed, that one I maintain, while the official Debian package is maintained by Bernhard. > P.S.: I am just curious and if you have time, could you explain > why Bernhard Schmidt's name is listed as the maintainer of > 2.6.5-bookworm0? When it is obvious to everyone that Frank or Samuli, > on behalf of OpenVPN Inc., is the real maintainer (in the sense of > expending time and effort on creating 2.6.5-bookworm0.) Bernhard's > name is listed in the file called Packages > (https://build.openvpn.net/debian/openvpn/release/2.6/dists/bookworm-20230613112628209348061/main/binary-amd64/Packages) There's "upstream maintainers" (Frank, Samuli, I) who do the software development independent of any particular Linux distribution, or any other operating system. Then there's "distro" or "port maintainers", who take the upstream git repo / tarball, possibly add patches to better suit whatever that distro needs (like, "where are things installed", "is there a systemd unit file needed, or a classic /etc/rc.d/ script", etc.). Official packages have to follow official rules about release cycles, and especially in Debian, very rarely get "new version" updates, so you are unlikely to see a 2.6.5 package for bookworm, but they do get bugfixes - so a 2.6.3-2, 2.3.6-3, ... is likely to show up. For Debian, we have Bernhard Schmidt, who does the official Debian blessed packages, and we also have Frank and Samuli who build "not debian blessed" packages that can be installed on Debian systems if someone wants the latest and greatest. These follow project rules, not Debian rules - so you get 2.6.5, but they are not part of the "official distribution". Sometimes there is overlap in people - like, for FreeBSD, I maintain the "openvpn-devel" port, which gets updated with git snapshots whenever there is an interesting bug or feature that might be relevant to FreeBSD users. For RedHat/CentOS, package maintenance is done by David Sommerseth, who is also part of the OpenVPN team (though mostly busy with OpenVPN 3.x these days). Sometimes also distributions fall behind, because maintainers are too busy with something else... and sometimes distributions ship something they shouldn't (like Ubuntu 22.10 shipping a git master version of OpenVPN). gert -- "If was one thing all people took for granted, was conviction that if you feed honest figures into a computer, honest figures come out. Never doubted it myself till I met a computer with a sense of humor." Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress Gert Doering - Munich, Germany g...@greenie.muc.de
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