Package: release.debian.org Severity: normal User: release.debian....@packages.debian.org Usertags: unblock
Please unblock package network-manager-l2tp I'm the current upstream maintainer of Networkmanager-l2tp and the Debian package maintainer of network-manager-l2tp. My Debian package sponsor suggests it would probably make sense if I ask the release team for pre-approval for buster before this new upstream release (network-manager-l2tp-1.2.12-1) is uploaded to unstable. I've renamed the upstream GitHub project from network-manager-l2tp to NetworkManager-l2tp (as https://github.com/robots.txt was preventing googlebots and others from crawling the project), and I now provide a pre-generated tar.xz tarball (like GNOME Project VPN clients do) instead of using the GitHub provided tar.gz tarball. Consequently the debdiff is considerably larger than between previous releases because of generated autoreconf and intltoolize files. This packages is of priority optional, but this release has a number of important bug fixes that impact other packages including: - No longer produces confusing error message when user attempts to import an OpenVPN .ovpn file with nm-connection-editor/nmcli. e.g.: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1545255 as this VPN client's import/export capability has been removed as there was no need for its proprietary file format, better to just use NetworkManager VPN profile files instead if one needs to copy config files. - Add nm-l2tp-service- prefix to pppd ipparam argument used by a condition in Debian's resolvconf's /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/000resolvconf script: https://github.com/nm-l2tp/NetworkManager-l2tp/commit/479cb0da09168bde03d7f97147fa14ff591388d2 Although this bug isn't critical, it just ensures NetworkManager takes care of /etc/resolv.conf during the VPN connection. There were a number of other important bug fixes, but they have no impact on other packages. As mentioned this new upstream release (network-manager-l2tp-1.2.12-1) has not been uploaded to unstable as my sponsor suggested seeking pre-approval for testing first,. So I have not attached a debdiff, but I have provided the following temporary GitHub VCS fork of unstable to make it easier to see the changes of this proposed release in the commits: https://github.com/dkosovic/debian Thanks Doug unblock network-manager-l2tp/1.2.12-1 -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_AU:en (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
