On Tue, 2019-12-10 at 11:55 -0700, Jesse Rhodes wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The Wireguard vpn package has been increasing in popularity[1].
> However, the current installation instructions, both from wireguard
> upstream AND on the debian wiki[2], recommend enabling sid on a stable
> system and using pinning.
>
> This seems like a clear candidate for buster-backports, both to fill
> demand, and to hopefully avoid any unnecessary broken systems due to
> users only partially following the current install instructions.
>
> sney
>
> [1] https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=wireguard
> [2] https://wiki.debian.org/Wireguard#Installation
We already have a backport of the Linux kernel, and Wireguard is due to
be included in Linux 5.6. Perhaps it would make more sense to add
Wireguard to our kernel package rather than adding another package that
will soon be obsolete?
Ben.
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