[vpnc-devel] Alternate or updated repository?

[Dan Villiom Podlaski Christiansen]

Daniel Roethlisberger wrote:
> Definately.  By coincidence, I've submitted a small patch to the FreeBSD
> port of vpnc yesterday, which makes vpnc send NAT keepalives when UDP
> encapsulation is used.  My improvements to vpnc-script have been largely
> ignored too, so I've been patching my local vpnc-script for ever.

I guess one of the first things to do would be integrating changes from 
the various proper porting efforts. I have a feeling that the FreeBSD 
patches would be a large part of what's need on Darwin anyway, given 
their common ancestry. And already having been through peer review, they 
should be safe to apply.

> There seems to be little or no active development on vpnc here.  I'd
> very much like to see a community driven vpnc repository, ideally not
> bound to a single developer, where patches from porters, packagers and
> other volunteers can be actively integrated.

Yesterday, I tried sending an email to a different address to get in 
touch with Maurice Massar. If that fails too, I'll try contacting the 
UNIX-AG people which host the site, and ask if they can get me a dump of 
the Subversion repository.

The next question would be where to get a public repository. Unless 
anyone else has any better suggestions, I'd try dotsrc.org, since they 
are fairly helpful. (And Danish, like me, not that it matters...) The 
way I see it, anyone with good patches could be given write access to 
such a repository.

Anyway, I'll see what I can do; it seems foolish for an open source 
project as valuable as vpnc to be in such a stalemate.

- Dan V. P. Christiansen