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On Mon, 2025-07-21 at 18:40 +0200, Jochen Sprickerhof wrote:
> > strongswan-charon is the "historical" (legacy) charon daemon, which is
> > beeing
> > phased out in favor of charon-systemd. That's why we updated the
> > dependency
> > for the strongswan metapackage. We recommend people to migrate to the new
> > daemon, and for new install that'll be the case. For old installations one
> > could actually wonder if we should actually migrate, but in any case we
> > would
> > still want to actually upgrade the packages.
> 
> Why would people not upgrade?
> I think a new Debian release is a good reason to migrate.

Yes indeed, we just don't want to force that on them. They can still keep
strongswan-charon (and strongswan-starter) along with their current
configuration, and migrate on their own term.
> 
> > So I'm not sure how to express that in apt relationships.
> 
> If both should be in trixie I would say:
> 
> Package: strongswan
> Depends: charon-systemd | strongswan-charon, strongswan-swanctl

Ah, good point, that might work, let's try that. I'll report back here.

Regards,
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Yves-Alexis
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