Hello
I'm writing to raise an issue that is probably of low interest to vpnc
developers, but is of some relevance to the user base at large.
Recently I was having a problem with the dead peer detection firing at
random. After some googling I found Mihai's post from 2010 [1]. I
cursed the ancient Debian package and went off to recompile vpnc from
the latest sources.
I did so, downloading the latest tarball from the website, only to
discover (hours later) that it *still* didn't include that fix from
2010.
Now, I have no problem building from svn, (that's what I did, at last)
but I think it's misleading to offer "stable" releases for download on
the project's website without either 1) a maintainer that periodically
releases them, or 2) a notice that users are advised to checkout from
svn.
So, in the absence of 1), I would suggest that somebody who has access
to the website adds a notice to direct users (and distribution
packagers) to use the latest commit. I believe this would save a
non-trivial amount of collective time and headaches (and mailing list
noise.)
Thanks,
Tobia
[1] http://lists.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/pipermail/vpnc-devel/2010-December/003492.html
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I'm writing to raise an issue that is probably of low interest to vpnc
developers, but is of some relevance to the user base at large.
Recently I was having a problem with the dead peer detection firing at
random. After some googling I found Mihai's post from 2010 [1]. I
cursed the ancient Debian package and went off to recompile vpnc from
the latest sources.
I did so, downloading the latest tarball from the website, only to
discover (hours later) that it *still* didn't include that fix from
2010.
Now, I have no problem building from svn, (that's what I did, at last)
but I think it's misleading to offer "stable" releases for download on
the project's website without either 1) a maintainer that periodically
releases them, or 2) a notice that users are advised to checkout from
svn.
So, in the absence of 1), I would suggest that somebody who has access
to the website adds a notice to direct users (and distribution
packagers) to use the latest commit. I believe this would save a
non-trivial amount of collective time and headaches (and mailing list
noise.)
Thanks,
Tobia
[1] http://lists.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/pipermail/vpnc-devel/2010-December/003492.html
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