Bug#925388: unblock: network-manager-l2tp/1.2.12-1

[Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>]

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Douglas Kosovic:
> Package: release.debian.org
> Severity: normal
> User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
> Usertags: unblock
> 
> Please unblock package network-manager-l2tp
> 
> I'm the current upstream maintainer of Networkmanager-l2tp and the Debian
> package maintainer of network-manager-l2tp. My Debian package sponsor suggests
> it would probably make sense if I ask the release team for pre-approval for
> buster before this new upstream release (network-manager-l2tp-1.2.12-1) is
> uploaded to unstable.
> 
> I've renamed the upstream GitHub project from network-manager-l2tp to
> NetworkManager-l2tp (as https://github.com/robots.txt was preventing googlebots
> and others from crawling the project), and I now provide a pre-generated tar.xz
> tarball (like GNOME Project VPN clients do) instead of using the GitHub
> provided tar.gz tarball. Consequently the debdiff is considerably larger than
> between previous releases because of generated autoreconf and intltoolize
> files.
> 
> This packages is of priority optional, but this release has a number of
> important bug fixes that impact other packages including:
> - No longer produces confusing error message when user attempts to import an
> OpenVPN .ovpn file with nm-connection-editor/nmcli. e.g.:
>   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1545255
> as this VPN client's import/export capability has been removed as there was no
> need for its proprietary file format, better to just use NetworkManager VPN
> profile files instead if one needs to copy config files.
> - Add nm-l2tp-service- prefix to pppd ipparam argument used by a condition in
> Debian's resolvconf's /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/000resolvconf script:
> https://github.com/nm-l2tp/NetworkManager-l2tp/commit/479cb0da09168bde03d7f97147fa14ff591388d2
> Although this bug isn't critical, it just ensures NetworkManager takes care of
> /etc/resolv.conf during the VPN connection.
> 
> There were a number of other important bug fixes, but they have no impact on
> other packages.
> 
> As mentioned this new upstream release (network-manager-l2tp-1.2.12-1) has not
> been uploaded to unstable as my sponsor suggested seeking pre-approval for
> testing first,. So I have not attached a debdiff, but I have provided the
> following temporary GitHub VCS fork of unstable to make it easier to see the
> changes of this proposed release in the commits:
> 
> https://github.com/dkosovic/debian
> 
> Thanks
> Doug
> 
> 
> unblock network-manager-l2tp/1.2.12-1
> 
> [...]

Hi Doug,

Thanks for you request.

Could I have you generate a source debdiff (relative to testing) of the
changes you want to do, so we can review them?  At the moment, we have
about 50 open unblock requests awaiting the release team (not to mention
that the easiest reviewable ones tend to be unblocked first).

Thanks,
~Niels