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Bug#446645: Bug#446646: ITP: shorewall4-lite -- Shoreline Firewall, netfilter configuration tool (lite version)



Hi,

On Sunday 14 October 2007 19:00, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> * Package name    : shorewall4-lite

First of all, why do you propose shorewall4 packages instead of just upgrading 
shorewall to version 4? 

>   Description     : Shoreline Firewall, Netfilter configurator (lite
> version)
> The shorewall4-lite package is designed to allow you to maintain all
> Shorewall configuration information on a single system within your
> network.

I dont see whats special or lite about this, this is just the way shorewall 
works :-)

But thats probably related to my questions about shorewall4-perl and -shell: 
their proposed long description ends with: "This version of Shorewall includes 
a compiler written in perl|shell." - does that mean, that shorewall is a 
general purpose compiler now? Wow! ;) Please enhance the description to 
describe what kind of compiler that is and what its used for.

Also those two packages claim their programming language is "sh" - I wonder if 
this is right...  (maybe it is, and the compiler written in sh compiles perl 
or shell code... and compiles it to iptables code?!) 


regards,
	Holger (writing this offline, so cant check or provide better suggestions)

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