I'm currently playing with FreeRadius, which was in unstable as radiusd-freeradius but was removed due to a grave bug against it, which was only supposed to keep it out of testing. It never appeared in a stable Debian release, so the archive has forgotten all about it. The upstream CVS and tarballs include a Debian directory, which I'm working on (initially for my own use, but now I'm trying to make it as policy-friendly as possible) to make it ready for re-entry into the archive. Amongst the changes I'm making are these: * Renaming "radiusd-freeradius" to "freeradius" because the name's ugly (IMHO, and upstream agrees) and the package does include a couple of bits such as a radius client and dictionaries and such. (Which could be split into three packages, but I'd rather leave that alone right now... The client stuff isn't so big that it's really worth it. There's already split packages for the database- and ldap- modules to keep dependancies sane) * Changing the directory the configuration files are stored in from /etc/raddb to /etc/freeradius Now, to deal with these two changes, I'm expecting to have to do the following: Put a note in README.Debian about the moved config files. Conflicts: and Replaces: radiusd-freeradius I guess they're not _technically_ required since the old version's no longer in the archive, but I think it'd be good in case anyone _is_ sitting on the old version, or built their own .deb from CVS (which could be done with small patches, but which made lintian complain like crazy) Am I working for the forces of good or evil here? I'm not at this point looking for a sponsor for this because I expect the upstream Debian guy to work with it, since he was the former maintainer. I'm just working on it because he's either busy or disinterested, and hasn't responded to my emails. Of course, if we do get this in good shape, and the regular developer still hasn't come in on this, I might wander back and seek to make the package mine. It's not yet ready though so it's not yet a relevant question. -- ----------------------------------------------------------- Paul "TBBle" Hampson, MCSE 6th year CompSci/Asian Studies student, ANU The Boss, Bubblesworth Pty Ltd (ABN: 51 095 284 361) Paul.Hampson@Anu.edu.au Of course Pacman didn't influence us as kids. If it did, we'd be running around in darkened rooms, popping pills and listening to repetitive music. -- Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, Inc, 1989 This email is licensed to the recipient for non-commercial use, duplication and distribution. -----------------------------------------------------------
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