[Pkg-swan-devel] Bug#848890: Revisiting "Ubuntu strongSwan changes"

[Christian Ehrhardt]

Package: strongswan
Version: 5.5.1-2
Severity: normal

Hi,
this is - to some extend - the resurrection of a zombified thread from 3
years ago.
Reference:

http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-swan-devel/Week-of-Mon-20131230/000009.html

http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-swan-devel/Week-of-Mon-20140106/000010.html

http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-swan-devel/Week-of-Mon-20140106/000011.html

http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-swan-devel/Week-of-Mon-20140120/000012.html

The person who was driving that back then stopped working on it and since
then strongswan was mostly in an "it is what it is" state with a huge Delta
that makes maintenance hard and error prone.
OTOH Debian could not benefit from all the work that was done.

In the least three Ubuntu development cycles a friend of mine and I tried
to clean up the Ubuntu Strongswan packaging as much as possible and I think
it is now ready (again?) to be fed back to improve Debian.

I isolated the less opinionated changes of our Delta and wanted feed all of
them back to Debian.
Some of them are just cleanups and minor fixes to issues that apply to
Debian as well.
The final bigger change is the reworked enablement of more features in
Strongswan as discussed back in 2013/14.

I pushed all the changes in a git branch so you can easily check them out
one by one.
I'd ask you to review and to pick them up if you agree.

LP-GIT:
https://code.launchpad.net/~paelzer/ubuntu/+source/strongswan/+git/strongswan/+ref/debian-submission

(git clone -b debian-submission
https://git.launchpad.net/~paelzer/ubuntu/+source/strongswan)

If there are discussions please reply here and I hope we can hopefully sort
it out.

-- 
Christian Ehrhardt
Software Engineer, Ubuntu Server
Canonical Ltd
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