Hi All On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 9:38 PM, Simon Deziel <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Ryan, > > On 2016-01-22 11:54 AM, Ryan Harper wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I've been working on merging[1] strongswan from Debian into Ubuntu for > > Xenial. We've not completed a merge with Debian for some time (Feb 19, > > 2014 was the last time). Ubuntu has been using version 5.1.2 since then > > but Debian and upstream have moved on. Ubuntu has collected a large > delta > > between Debian and with this merge I'm attempting to reduce the delta to > > ease merging in the future. In particular, the major change would be to > > no longer create a package per-plugin and instead use the more general > > standard/extra plugin packages as in Debian. Each plugin has an > > individual conf file which controls settings including whether to load or > > not. Currently the default template conf files default to loading > plugins > > if present; it's not clear to me if this is a sensible default or if we > > should left them off by default. Note that Strongswan doesn't currently > > have something akin to apache's a2enmod and a2dismod meaning users will > > need to edit conf as needed. During this merge, I've also been using a > > git-based merge workflow and the git repo tracking it is available > here[3]. > > > > Since the delta is large, I want to make sure that we document the > changes > > and provide opportunity for users of Strongswan in Ubuntu to provide > > feedback and comments on this merge. I've updated the package and placed > > it in a PPA[2]. > Once more update in the PPA[1]; this time with working dist-upgrade with all plugins installed. I've captured my dist-upgrade test here (uses lxd) here[2] Changelog updates since 1ubuntu2: strongswan (5.3.5-1ubuntu4) xenial; urgency=medium * debian/control: fix i386 build, learn Architecture: all vs. any. -- Ryan Harper <[email protected]> Wed, 10 Feb 2016 20:32:45 -0600 strongswan (5.3.5-1ubuntu3) xenial; urgency=medium * debian/control: Add missing strongswan-plugin-* virtual packages to fix dist-upgrade from 5.1.2-0ubuntu8 to 5.3.5-1ubuntu3 -- Ryan Harper <[email protected]> Wed, 10 Feb 2016 14:22:00 -0600 Remaining TODOs: - drop libfastcgi, clearsilver-dev builddeps and plugins - confirm none of the default packages/plugins have dependencies on packages outside of main - create dep8 test for quick validation of ipsec daemon 1. ppa:raharper/merges 2. https://gist.github.com/raharper/6a49940c65cc4b1b1475
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