Am 07.10.18 um 15:55 schrieb Gijs Molenaar: > Package: network-manager-openvpn > Version: 1.2.8-2 > Severity: important > > Dear Maintainer, > > I'm developing a UI wrapper around various platforms for an open VPN service. > Debian 9 is one of our targetted platforms. We have tls-crypt enabled for our > service, which works on Debian 9 since it is bundeled with openVPN 2.4.0. The > problem is the network-manager-openvpn package, which doesn't seem to have > support for this setting. This is a bit of a pitty, since technically it > should > work. The limitation becomes apparant when you for example import a .ovpn file > in the UI with a tls-crypt statement in it. The import will fail. > > It looks like network-manager-openvpn > 1.2.10 actually has support for the > tls-crypt statement. > > Now i'm not sure if this is the right spot to request such a thing, but is it > somehow possible to get network-manager-openvpn > 1.2.10 into stable? > Important > security features are now not available to stable users, while technically it > is supported.
stable updates are supposed to fix security issues or grave bugs and not add new features or add new upstream versions. That said, 1.2.10 could be provided via stretch-backports: https://backports.debian.org/ Would this suffice for you? -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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