Package: strongswan-ike
Version: 5.10-1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
The new strongSwan package still has a description that talks about
working on "any recent 2.6 kernel".
Since even Debian Stable is on 3.x, and since anything too old to run
strongSwan has been completely unsupported for a long time, wouldn't
this be an appropriate time to drop the reference to 2.6?
My patch also "standardises" the boilerplate first paragraph
throughout the suite, eliminating the different version in the
metapackage (but adopting some of its wording).
Of course, if it's no longer noteworthy these days that IPSec support
requires no patching then the boilerplate can also afford to drop the
part in parentheses.
--
JBR with qualifications in linguistics, experience as a Debian
sysadmin, and probably no clue about this particular package
diff -ru strongswan-5.1.0.pristine/debian/control strongswan-5.1.0/debian/control
--- strongswan-5.1.0.pristine/debian/control 2013-09-30 08:57:07.000000000 +0100
+++ strongswan-5.1.0/debian/control 2013-10-01 11:07:31.064271721 +0100
@@ -20,8 +20,9 @@
Depends: ${misc:Depends}, strongswan-ike
Suggests: network-manager-strongswan
Description: IPsec VPN solution metapackage
- The strongSwan VPN suite is based on the IPsec stack in standard Linux 2.6
- kernels. It supports both the IKEv1 and IKEv2 protocols.
+ The strongSwan VPN suite uses the native IPsec stack in the standard
+ Linux kernel (no patching required). It supports both the IKEv1 and IKEv2
+ protocols.
.
StrongSwan is one of the two remaining forks of the original FreeS/WAN
project and focuses on IKEv2 support, X.509 authentication and complete PKI
@@ -38,9 +39,9 @@
Breaks: strongswan-ikev2 (<< 4.6.4)
Replaces: strongswan-ikev2 (<< 4.6.4)
Description: strongSwan utility and crypto library
- StrongSwan is an IPsec-based VPN solution for the Linux kernel. It uses the
- native IPsec stack and runs on any recent 2.6 kernel (no patching required).
- It supports both IKEv1 and the newer IKEv2 protocols.
+ The strongSwan VPN suite uses the native IPsec stack in the standard
+ Linux kernel (no patching required). It supports both the IKEv1 and IKEv2
+ protocols.
.
This package provides the underlying library of charon and other strongSwan
components. It is built in a modular way and is extendable through various
@@ -52,9 +53,9 @@
Priority: extra
Depends: ${misc:Depends}, strongswan, libstrongswan
Description: strongSwan library and binaries - debugging symbols
- StrongSwan is an IPsec-based VPN solution for the Linux kernel. It uses the
- native IPsec stack and runs on any recent 2.6 kernel (no patching required).
- It supports both IKEv1 and the newer IKEv2 protocols.
+ The strongSwan VPN suite uses the native IPsec stack in the standard
+ Linux kernel (no patching required). It supports both the IKEv1 and IKEv2
+ protocols.
.
This package provides the symbols needed for debugging of strongswan.
@@ -65,9 +66,9 @@
adduser
Conflicts: strongswan (<< 4.2.12-1)
Description: strongSwan daemon starter and configuration file parser
- StrongSwan is an IPsec-based VPN solution for Linux and other Unixes. It uses
- the native IPsec stack and runs on any recent kernel (no patching required).
- It supports both IKEv1 and the newer IKEv2 protocols.
+ The strongSwan VPN suite uses the native IPsec stack in the standard
+ Linux kernel (no patching required). It supports both the IKEv1 and IKEv2
+ protocols.
.
The starter and the associated "ipsec" script control the charon daemon
from the command line. It parses ipsec.conf and loads the configurations to
@@ -84,9 +85,9 @@
Conflicts: freeswan (<< 2.04-12), openswan, strongswan (<< 4.2.12-1)
Replaces: strongswan-ikev1, strongswan-ikev2
Description: strongSwan Internet Key Exchange (v2) daemon
- StrongSwan is an IPsec-based VPN solution for the Linux kernel. It uses the
- native IPsec stack and runs on any recent 2.6 kernel (no patching required).
- It supports both IKEv1 and the newer IKEv2 protocols.
+ The strongSwan VPN suite uses the native IPsec stack in the standard
+ Linux kernel (no patching required). It supports both the IKEv1 and IKEv2
+ protocols.
.
Charon is an IPsec IKEv2 daemon. It is
written from scratch using a fully multi-threaded design and a modular
@@ -97,9 +98,9 @@
Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, strongswan-ike
Recommends: network-manager-strongswan
Description: strongSwan plugin to interact with NetworkManager
- StrongSwan is an IPsec-based VPN solution for the Linux kernel. It uses the
- native IPsec stack and runs on any recent 2.6 kernel (no patching required).
- It supports both IKEv1 and the newer IKEv2 protocols.
+ The strongSwan VPN suite uses the native IPsec stack in the standard
+ Linux kernel (no patching required). It supports both the IKEv1 and IKEv2
+ protocols.
.
This plugin provides an interface which allows NetworkManager to configure
and control the IKEv2 daemon directly through D-Bus. It is designed to work
@@ -111,10 +112,10 @@
Depends: ${misc:Depends}, strongswan-ike
Section: oldlibs
Priority: extra
-Description: strongswan IKEv1 daemon, transitional package
- StrongSwan is an IPsec-based VPN solution for the Linux kernel. It uses the
- native IPsec stack and runs on any recent 2.6 kernel (no patching required).
- It supports both IKEv1 and the newer IKEv2 protocols.
+Description: strongSwan IKEv1 daemon, transitional package
+ The strongSwan VPN suite uses the native IPsec stack in the standard
+ Linux kernel (no patching required). It supports both the IKEv1 and IKEv2
+ protocols.
.
This package used to install the pluto daemon, implementing the IKEv1
protocol. It has been replaced by charon in the strongswan-ike package.
@@ -124,10 +125,10 @@
Depends: ${misc:Depends}, strongswan-ike
Section: oldlibs
Priority: extra
-Description: strongswan IKEv2 daemon, transitional package
- StrongSwan is an IPsec-based VPN solution for the Linux kernel. It uses the
- native IPsec stack and runs on any recent 2.6 kernel (no patching required).
- It supports both IKEv1 and the newer IKEv2 protocols.
+Description: strongSwan IKEv2 daemon, transitional package
+ The strongSwan VPN suite uses the native IPsec stack in the standard
+ Linux kernel (no patching required). It supports both the IKEv1 and IKEv2
+ protocols.
.
This package used to install the charon daemon, implementing the IKEv2
protocol. It has been replaced the strongswan-ike package.
