Hi, On Mon, Dec 22, 2025 at 8:32 AM Lucas Castro <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Em 22/12/2025 07:03, Andrej Shadura escreveu: > > Hello, > > > > On Tue, 07 Feb 2023 14:23:55 +0100 "Andrej Shadura" > > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi all, > >> > >> I packaged SoftEther VPN back in 2020 when people in Belarus protested > >> against decades of dictatorship, and they needed a safe way to > >> communicate > >> with the outside world and with each other, circumventing the state > >> censorship. > >> > >> Since then, due to a massive crackdown on protests and repressions > >> against > >> anyone remotely involved, most of my friends have moved abroad, and I, > >> personally, don't know a single user of this VPN right now. Packaging is > >> not hard, but not super trivial either, and requires some work to > >> package > >> subsequent releases. Not using this software myself, I'm really not in > >> position to continue being the maintainer, and if nobody takes it over, > >> I will have to orphan it eventually. > >> > >> Please let me know if you can help. > > I just wanted to repeat this here in debian-devel@, I’m still looking > > for new maintainers for SoftEther VPN. I will have to ask for the > > package to be removed from Debian if nobody picks it up by the end of > > January. > > Please, file a RFA, that way it'll be visible for wnpp, how-can-i-help > for example. > >
Ideally, the best way would be through WNPP and using RFA so that it is listed on these sites and those interested can see and adopt the package maintenance. https://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/index.html https://wnpp.debian.net/ Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year of 2026! -- Cheers, Leandro Cunha
