[Pkg-swan-devel] Bug#882431: strongswan-starter: counters plugin should be visible to strongswan-swanctl package

[Gerald Turner]

Package: strongswan-starter
Version: 5.6.1-1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

Upstream strongSwan 5.6.1 introduced the counters plugin, which moved
from being stroke-specific, to being shared with swanctl.

FWICT Alioth commit d14d4c17 added the counters plugin to the
strongswan-starter package where stroke resides.  Perhaps in reaction to
the upstream change - perhaps because stroke would fail without the
plugin being available?  Sorry for my ignorance, I no longer use
strongswan-starter/stroke anywhere, and instead rely solely on
charon-systemd/swanctl.

As you can see from the documentation, this plugin was intended to be
accessible to the strongswan-swanctl package as well.

  https://wiki.strongswan.org/versions/67

    “The IKE event counters, previously only available via ipsec
     listcounters command, may now also be queried and reset via vici
     and the new swanctl --counters command. They are collected and
     provided by the optional counters plugin (enabled by default for
     backwards compatibility if the stroke plugin is built).”

  https://wiki.strongswan.org/projects/strongswan/wiki/Swanctl

    “The --counters command was added with 5.6.1."

It would seem appropriate to move the counters plugin to the
libstrongswan package (although I always get confused about libcharon
vs. libstrongswan).

I'd like to use this feature of swanctl to create a munin-node
statistics collection script.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.1
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (601, 'stable'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-debug')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.13.0-0.bpo.1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages strongswan-starter depends on:
ii  adduser                3.115
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.61
ii  init-system-helpers    1.48
ii  libc6                  2.24-11+deb9u1
ii  libstrongswan          5.6.1-1.1
ii  lsb-base               9.20161125

Versions of packages strongswan-starter recommends:
pn  strongswan-charon  <none>

strongswan-starter suggests no packages.

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