Package: strongswan Version: 5.5.1-2 Severity: normal Hi, this is - to some extend - the resurrection of a zombified thread from 3 years ago. Reference:
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-swan-devel/Week-of-Mon-20131230/000009.html http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-swan-devel/Week-of-Mon-20140106/000010.html http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-swan-devel/Week-of-Mon-20140106/000011.html http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-swan-devel/Week-of-Mon-20140120/000012.html The person who was driving that back then stopped working on it and since then strongswan was mostly in an "it is what it is" state with a huge Delta that makes maintenance hard and error prone. OTOH Debian could not benefit from all the work that was done. In the least three Ubuntu development cycles a friend of mine and I tried to clean up the Ubuntu Strongswan packaging as much as possible and I think it is now ready (again?) to be fed back to improve Debian. I isolated the less opinionated changes of our Delta and wanted feed all of them back to Debian. Some of them are just cleanups and minor fixes to issues that apply to Debian as well. The final bigger change is the reworked enablement of more features in Strongswan as discussed back in 2013/14. I pushed all the changes in a git branch so you can easily check them out one by one. I'd ask you to review and to pick them up if you agree. LP-GIT: https://code.launchpad.net/~paelzer/ubuntu/+source/strongswan/+git/strongswan/+ref/debian-submission (git clone -b debian-submission https://git.launchpad.net/~paelzer/ubuntu/+source/strongswan) If there are discussions please reply here and I hope we can hopefully sort it out. -- Christian Ehrhardt Software Engineer, Ubuntu Server Canonical Ltd
