[Bug 194487] Re: network-manager[-openvpn] doesn't handle properly routes pushed by OpenVPN 2.1_Rc7

Tony Espy espy at canonical.com
Wed Aug 26 17:10:45 BST 2009


Diego, thanks for the attached patches.  asac is on vacation, so I'll
attempt to field this one for now...

In order for your patches to land in Hardy 8.04, they'd have to be
released via the SRU process:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates

I'm not saying it's impossible to land your changes as an SRU, but as
your patches contain changes to both NetworkManager and the applet, they
may be seen as risky.

Also the patches as attached would need to be re-factored to separate
out changes to the files in the debian directory, and to utilize the
correct patch system ( eg. quilt for NetworkManager ).

Ideally, the best place for your changes to land would be the current
release under development ( Karmic ), which unfortunately is about to
hit FeatureFreeze ( tomorrow ).

Since what you've really done is add a new feature which adds missing
functionality, another possibility would be to try and work directly
with upstream to get your patches integrated into NM 0.8 which is
currently under development.  If done in a timely manner, there's
potential that your changes could land in Karmic, as we may continue to
pull upstream snapshots of NM 0.8 and the VPN plugins as we try and
finalize the release.

You can contact the upstream developers, and myself and asac on #nm on
the Ubuntu IRC server.

Here are the URLs for the upstream git trees for NM, the applet, and the
vpn plugins:

git://anongit.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager
git://git.gnome.org/network-manager-applet
git://git.gnome.org/network-manager-openvpn
git://git.gnome.org/network-manager-pptp
git://git.gnome.org/network-manager-vpnc

asac may have a different opinion, so you might want to try and touch
base with him next week when he returns from vacation, but I think the
upstream approach may be the best way to go.

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network-manager[-openvpn] doesn't handle properly routes pushed by OpenVPN 2.1_Rc7
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