My MR against the Debian packaging got merged:

https://salsa.debian.org/debian/strongswan/-/commit/b062db8d85e1502010cd45bc2beb5fbd67912cab

so this will be fixed in Debian unstable with the next upload and in
Ubuntu with the merges that will follow. However I'd like to see this
land in Impish, so I'm requesting a FFe [1].

This is actually borderline between a bugfix (for which we wouldn't need
a FFe) and a new feature. It's a bugfix because in the libstrongswan-
extra-plugins package description we write:

  Also included is the libtpmtss library adding support for TPM plugin
  (https://wiki.strongswan.org/projects/strongswan/wiki/TpmPlugin)

but without a TSS implementation the plugin can't do anything useful.
OTOH adding tss2 support enables new code sections which were previously
disabled, and requires a new dependency, so to some extent this is a new
feature.

The "new feature" bits are however confined in a module (libtpmtss.so,
provided by libstrongswan-extra-plugins), which is basically useless
without also enabling a TSS implementation. This should be a safe case
not only for a FFe but also for a SRU.

For the moment this is a FFe for Impish. If accepted we'll evaluate what
to do with the stable releases.

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FreezeExceptionProcess
[2] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates#Other_safe_cases

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