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network-manager-openvpn package

[MIR] network-manager-openvpn

Bug #1574576 reported by COLABORATI
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This bug affects 5 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
network-manager-openvpn (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
High
Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre

Bug Description

[Availability]

network-manager-openvpn is available in Ubuntu (universe).

[Rationale]

Unity 8 is pulling in openvpn support, thus network-manager-openvpn is required to implement that.

[Security]

There are no major security issues discovered in recent months.

[Quality assurance]

User can configure to use openvpn with GUI that's well integrated with network-manager-applet's UI.

Upstream is active at GNOME, maintained by the same group of people as network-manager. There are no long-standing important bugs remain open.

[Dependencies]

Major dependencies are network-manager and openvpn, both are already in main.

[Standards compliance]

The package conforms to FHS and Debian Policy standards.

[Maintenance]

The package is actively maintained in Debian/Ubuntu. Desktop Team would take care of it in Ubuntu.

See original description
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in network-manager-openvpn (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Mathew Hodson (mhodson)
summary: - network-manager-openvpn NOT SUPPORTED on fresh 16.04 LTS
+ [MIR] network-manager-openvpn
Changed in network-manager-openvpn (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
Revision history for this message
Michael Terry (mterry) wrote :

"it is not acceptable that canonical refuses to support such extremely important piece of security related software"

Let's cool the language here.

So this request appears to be to add network-manager-openvpn to the 'supported' seed (rather than a main image seed).

We do actually already pre-install network-manager-openvpn in ubuntu-touch. So there is some interest there, but we don't yet require all ubuntu-touch packages to be in main. The other consumer is ubuntu-mate, which also doesn't need to be in main.

Until a team in Canonical says they are on board for supporting this in the supported seed, this bug doesn't seem actionable. I'll mark it as Incomplete for now, as a request for feedback about why this is needed.

Changed in network-manager-openvpn (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Incomplete
Revision history for this message
Will Cooke (willcooke) wrote :

As part of the inclusion of Unity 8 & co in 16.10 this is will progressed soon.

tags: added: desktop-trello-import
Changed in network-manager-openvpn (Ubuntu):
importance: Wishlist → High
status: Incomplete → In Progress
assignee: nobody → Aron Xu (happyaron)
Revision history for this message
Will Cooke (willcooke) wrote : Automatically added comment

Added to Trello: https://trello.com/c/1W3AndGN/15-bug-1574576-mir-network-manager-openvpn

tags: removed: desktop-trello-import
Aron Xu (happyaron)
description: updated
Changed in network-manager-openvpn (Ubuntu):
status: In Progress → Triaged
Michael Terry (mterry)
Changed in network-manager-openvpn (Ubuntu):
assignee: Aron Xu (happyaron) → Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox)
Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox)
Changed in network-manager-openvpn (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → In Progress
Revision history for this message
Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox) wrote :

Please package the latest version of network-manager-openvpn (Debian is ahead, and we carry a tiny delta).

All other main requirements seem to be in order, so I'm not blocking the MIR approval on this; the package is generally well maintained in Ubuntu, lots of eyes on it, and well maintained and up to date in Debian.

One gotcha is that it handles passwords, but only to interface between network-manager and openvpn; as well as to read/write config files from openvpn. There seems to be no way around that, and a cursory code review didn't ring any bells.

MIR approved.

Changed in network-manager-openvpn (Ubuntu):
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
Revision history for this message
Matthias Klose (doko) wrote :

Override component to main
network-manager-openvpn 1.1.93-1ubuntu1 in yakkety: universe/net -> main
network-manager-openvpn 1.1.93-1ubuntu1 in yakkety amd64: universe/net/optional/100% -> main
network-manager-openvpn 1.1.93-1ubuntu1 in yakkety arm64: universe/net/optional/100% -> main
network-manager-openvpn 1.1.93-1ubuntu1 in yakkety armhf: universe/net/optional/100% -> main
network-manager-openvpn 1.1.93-1ubuntu1 in yakkety i386: universe/net/optional/100% -> main
network-manager-openvpn 1.1.93-1ubuntu1 in yakkety powerpc: universe/net/optional/100% -> main
network-manager-openvpn 1.1.93-1ubuntu1 in yakkety ppc64el: universe/net/optional/100% -> main
network-manager-openvpn 1.1.93-1ubuntu1 in yakkety s390x: universe/net/optional/100% -> main
network-manager-openvpn-gnome 1.1.93-1ubuntu1 in yakkety amd64: universe/net/optional/100% -> main
network-manager-openvpn-gnome 1.1.93-1ubuntu1 in yakkety arm64: universe/net/optional/100% -> main
network-manager-openvpn-gnome 1.1.93-1ubuntu1 in yakkety armhf: universe/net/optional/100% -> main
network-manager-openvpn-gnome 1.1.93-1ubuntu1 in yakkety i386: universe/net/optional/100% -> main
network-manager-openvpn-gnome 1.1.93-1ubuntu1 in yakkety powerpc: universe/net/optional/100% -> main
network-manager-openvpn-gnome 1.1.93-1ubuntu1 in yakkety ppc64el: universe/net/optional/100% -> main
network-manager-openvpn-gnome 1.1.93-1ubuntu1 in yakkety s390x: universe/net/optional/100% -> main
15 publications overridden.

Changed in network-manager-openvpn (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Revision history for this message
Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote :

Nothing that depends on network-manager-openvpn has yet been seeded in main. Re-demoting until this is done.

Changed in network-manager-openvpn (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Released → Fix Committed
Mathew Hodson (mhodson)
tags: removed: lts network-manager security
Revision history for this message
Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote :

Override component to main
network-manager-openvpn 1.1.93-1ubuntu1 in yakkety: universe/net -> main
network-manager-openvpn 1.1.93-1ubuntu1 in yakkety amd64: universe/net/optional/100% -> main
network-manager-openvpn 1.1.93-1ubuntu1 in yakkety arm64: universe/net/optional/100% -> main
network-manager-openvpn 1.1.93-1ubuntu1 in yakkety armhf: universe/net/optional/100% -> main
network-manager-openvpn 1.1.93-1ubuntu1 in yakkety i386: universe/net/optional/100% -> main
network-manager-openvpn 1.1.93-1ubuntu1 in yakkety powerpc: universe/net/optional/100% -> main
network-manager-openvpn 1.1.93-1ubuntu1 in yakkety ppc64el: universe/net/optional/100% -> main
network-manager-openvpn 1.1.93-1ubuntu1 in yakkety s390x: universe/net/optional/100% -> main
network-manager-openvpn-gnome 1.1.93-1ubuntu1 in yakkety amd64: universe/net/optional/100% -> main
network-manager-openvpn-gnome 1.1.93-1ubuntu1 in yakkety arm64: universe/net/optional/100% -> main
network-manager-openvpn-gnome 1.1.93-1ubuntu1 in yakkety armhf: universe/net/optional/100% -> main
network-manager-openvpn-gnome 1.1.93-1ubuntu1 in yakkety i386: universe/net/optional/100% -> main
network-manager-openvpn-gnome 1.1.93-1ubuntu1 in yakkety powerpc: universe/net/optional/100% -> main
network-manager-openvpn-gnome 1.1.93-1ubuntu1 in yakkety ppc64el: universe/net/optional/100% -> main
network-manager-openvpn-gnome 1.1.93-1ubuntu1 in yakkety s390x: universe/net/optional/100% -> main
15 publications overridden.

Changed in network-manager-openvpn (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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