Ganesan, Sorry about taking time to get back to you. I have been busy trying to get a Plone project off the deck. After looking at the list of packages you maintain, I see that you are into python in a big way. Would you like to be the lead maintainer of the ipsec-tools and racoon packages? There are a few things I want to get done to support laptop use. The package is messy because of what I inherited, and the devel setup the ipsec-tools upstream coders have. The ipsec-tools sources needs to be repackaged as it is just mostly shell script calls from debian/rules, no debmake or debhelper stuff is used. This is a cause of a lot of work, and problems with various details with the package. This needs to be repackaged after sarge is out. This also puts updating to ipsec-tools 0.4 on hold as well. This is because the ipsec-tools coders use a wacky autoconf/libtool etc combination which does not compile on all Debian archs, which is hard to fix as you need to rerun the same autoconf/libtool (the Debian fixed ones) when you bring a new source tree in, and results in MASSIVE .diff.gz files. This can't be done manually as these developer tools are quite cantankerous. I have managed to get an ipsec-tools/racoon package release out with all the easy bug fixes and bugs with patches done. This was probably 1/3 of the outstanding bugs against racoon and ipsec-tools. Some of the bugs on the list need to be closed off as they are upstream and are fixed in 0.4 I am wanting to get this mostly off my plate as I am trying to concentrate on using Linux for email communications for Aid organisations, and community portal web sites using plone (which I get paid for). I also maintain a Debian email server for Leprosy Mission Bangladesh, as well as remotely maintaining their office server in Dhaka. (all running Debian). Looking forward to hearing from you shortly. Regards, Matthew Grant On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 07:25, Ganesan R wrote: > >>>>> "Matthew" == Matthew Grant <grantma@anathoth.gen.nz> writes: > > > Not just any person should take this package on, as it is highly > > technical. I am looking for someone with a background in IPSEC and in > > network programming. I am also looking to help out from time to time and > > add new functionality. > > I can help co-maintain this package. I use ipsec-tools at work and I am > quite familiar with racoon source code. > > Ganesan -- =============================================================================== Matthew Grant /\ ^/\^ grantma@anathoth.gen.nz /~~~~\ A Linux Network Guy /~~\^/~~\_/~~~~~\_______/~~~~~~~~~~\____/******\ ===GPG KeyID: 2EE20270 FingerPrint: 8C2535E1A11DF3EA5EA19125BA4E790E2EE20270==
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