Bug#922209: unblock: mandos/1.8.3-3

[Teddy Hogeborn]

Package: release.debian.org
Severity: normal
User: release.debian@packages.debian.org
Usertags: unblock

Hi Release Team,

Please allow mandos to migrate into testing and subsequent freeze.  The
mandos package was removed because libgnutls30 3.6.0 had removed
functionality which Mandos depended on, but libgnutls30 3.6.6, with
suitable replacement functionality, was not released until a few weeks
ago, and we (also being upstream) had to scramble to implement a new
protocol using the new GnuTLS features.  This was done on this past
Sunday (with a few more releases done on Saturday to fix minor bugs).
We would have done it sooner after the package removal, but we needed
GnuTLS 3.6.6, which *is* going into buster.

It seems a pity to lose the mandos package after 10 years in Debian
entirely because of the bad timing of GnuTLS 3.6.6 and the Debian freeze
being so close.

I brought this up on IRC #debian-release, and issue with the packaging
(#922202) was revealed, but it was easily fixed since the offending code
was only for backports, so a new version (1.8.3-3) has been uploaded
with the relevant code simply removed.  We are prepared to do any
further required changes to the package (and/or upstream) as needed.

/Teddy Hogeborn

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Bug#682472: unblock: mandos/1.6.0-1

[Teddy Hogeborn]

Package: release.debian.org
Severity: normal
User: release.debian@packages.debian.org
Usertags: unblock


Please unblock package mandos

We released Mandos version 1.6.0 well in advance of the anticipated
Debian freeze, and have been using it ourselves since then, but our
sponsor did not upload it with his usual promptness.  This release has
a very nice labor-saving autodetection feature for the client side
(clients most likely won't need any configuration anymore), and no
other incompatible changes since 1.5.5, but many packaging fixes.
Also, our popcon count is rather low: 11 for mandos and 14 for
mandos-client, and about half of those are our own systems.

Could you *please* consider including this release in wheezy?  We, the
upstream and uploaders of Mandos, feel that we did everything we could
for 1.6.0 to be included in wheezy, and that we are the victims of
circumstances outside our control (viz. that our sponsor, Daniel
Baumann, was late uploading it because of his being traveling due to
Debconf).

This configuration-less client feature is our last nice feature we
once dreamed of being able to provide for our users; future releases
of the package will consist mainly of minor polish to other parts, but
no features are missing.  Please make our dream come true?

unblock mandos/1.6.0-1

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