On Fri, 2025-05-16 at 00:55 +0200, Bernhard Schmidt wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Bernhard Schmidt <berni@debian.org>
> X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
>
> * Package name : ovpn-dkms
> Version : Git snapshot
> Upstream Contact: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
> * URL : https://github.com/OpenVPN/ovpn-backports/
> * License : GPL-2.0
> Programming Lang: C
> Description : OpenVPN data channel offload (ovpn)
>
> This DKMS module will provide a backport of the OpenVPN 2.7+ data channel
> offloading module that has been merged in Linux mainline 6.14+. I intend
> to upload this to experimental and later to Forky as soon as it opens
> up for development, together with OpenVPN 2.7 releases.
This seems a bit redundant with the kernel that will be in forky.
> The main use would be to backport both to Trixie and Bookworm to get them
> proper in-the-field test coverage.
OK, I can see how it could be useful to provide backports.
> This package is basically the successor of openvpn-dco-dkms, the old
> out-of-tree DCO module only supported with OpenVPN 2.6. They can both
> be coinstalled, OpenVPN will use the correct module.
>
> I expect to be able to drop both for the Forky release.
But once you do that, you will not be allowed to update the version in
trixie-backports. So I'm not sure that this plan is going to work.
Ben.
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