Re: Freeswan in Debian, or: Why I am such a bad maintainer

[Rene Mayrhofer <rene.mayrhofer@gibraltar.at>]

Marc Haber wrote:
> I have tried openswan yesterday and it seems to be able to communicate
> with freeswan. So I will update my freeswan gateways one after the
> other in the next few days/weeks.
Ok.


> Go ahead. I hope that openswan sucks less than freeswan and the
> native 2.6 stuff.
It does. I've tried :) As long as you don't need AES right now with 
KLIPS, it should provide everything that freeswan did, but without the 
highly-incompatible patch-mess.

> May I suggest creating a pkg-openswan project on alioth, along with a
> -devel mailing list?
The good thing is: it actually shouldn't be necessary. Most of the 
Debian packaging is already included in upstream 2.1.4, so I will mostly 
do compiles, uploads, and send patches their way whenever I fix bugs in 
or enhance the Debian packaging stuff. There is already a discussion 
about a Debian IPSec mailing list going on.

best regards,
Rene