Hi All
On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 9:38 PM, Simon Deziel <simon@sdeziel.info> wrote:
Hi Ryan,
On 2016-01-22 11:54 AM, Ryan Harper wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've been working on merging[1] strongswan from Debian into Ubuntu for
> Xenial. We've not completed a merge with Debian for some time (Feb 19,
> 2014 was the last time). Ubuntu has been using version 5.1.2 since then
> but Debian and upstream have moved on. Ubuntu has collected a large delta
> between Debian and with this merge I'm attempting to reduce the delta to
> ease merging in the future. In particular, the major change would be to
> no longer create a package per-plugin and instead use the more general
> standard/extra plugin packages as in Debian. Each plugin has an
> individual conf file which controls settings including whether to load or
> not. Currently the default template conf files default to loading plugins
> if present; it's not clear to me if this is a sensible default or if we
> should left them off by default. Note that Strongswan doesn't currently
> have something akin to apache's a2enmod and a2dismod meaning users will
> need to edit conf as needed. During this merge, I've also been using a
> git-based merge workflow and the git repo tracking it is available here[3].
>
> Since the delta is large, I want to make sure that we document the changes
> and provide opportunity for users of Strongswan in Ubuntu to provide
> feedback and comments on this merge. I've updated the package and placed
> it in a PPA[2].
Once more update in the PPA[1]; this time with working dist-upgrade with all plugins
installed.
I've captured my dist-upgrade test here (uses lxd) here[2]
Changelog updates since 1ubuntu2:
strongswan (5.3.5-1ubuntu4) xenial; urgency=medium
* debian/control: fix i386 build, learn Architecture: all vs. any.
-- Ryan Harper <ryan.harper@canonical.com> Wed, 10 Feb 2016 20:32:45 -0600
strongswan (5.3.5-1ubuntu3) xenial; urgency=medium
* debian/control: Add missing strongswan-plugin-* virtual packages to fix
dist-upgrade from 5.1.2-0ubuntu8 to 5.3.5-1ubuntu3
-- Ryan Harper <ryan.harper@canonical.com> Wed, 10 Feb 2016 14:22:00 -0600
Remaining TODOs:
- drop libfastcgi, clearsilver-dev builddeps and plugins
- confirm none of the default packages/plugins have dependencies on packages outside of main
- create dep8 test for quick validation of ipsec daemon
1. ppa:raharper/merges
