[arch-dev-public] [signoff] vpnc 0.5.3-4

[Dave Reisner]

On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 11:32:35AM -0500, Dan McGee wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 11:11 AM, Dave Reisner <d at falconindy.com> wrote:
> > On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 11:08:15AM +0200, Thomas Bächler wrote:
> >> Fix FS#25002 (add net-tools dep for now), FS#23452 (fix path, add
> >> optdepend) and FS#25095 (add supplied patch).
> >>
> >> Please sign off.
> >>
> >> I also want to mention that I don't use vpnc anymore, and haven't done
> >> so for years. I don't want to keep maintaining it, so if there are
> >> takers among the devs, please step up.
> >>
> >
> > Anyone else? User signoffs are welcome.
> >
> > I'd like to get this moved to core soon-ish to make way for some more
> > concrete changes, namely:
> >
> > * Updating to an svn tarball which has some lovely bug fixes -- several
> >  other distros are packaging trunk.
> > * An updated vpnc-script maintained by David Woodhouse (intel employee
> >  and major kernel contributor) [1]. He's added ipv6 support and a few
> >  bugfixes as well.
> >
> > I've also sent David a pull request to get rid of the net-tools
> > dependency (at least in Linux) and fix a bug in his updates.
> >
> > d
> >
> > [1] http://git.infradead.org/users/dwmw2/vpnc-scripts.git
> 
> 1. Why is this even in [core]? It doesn't seem essential at all to most systems.

If no one objects, I'll move this to extra tomorrow and start working on
a new release.

d

> 2. The updates sound smart to me.
> 
> -Dan