Debian Bug report logs - #428977
RM: cipe -- RoQA; orphaned; abandoned upstream; incompatible with all Debian kernels; obsoleted by openvpn

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Marco Nenciarini <mnencia@debian.org>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Cc: debian-qa@lists.debian.org

Subject: CIPE is abandoned upstream, icompatible with all unstable kernels, low popcon and obsoleted by openvpn

Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 12:17:00 +0200

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Package: cipe-source
Severity: grave

The cipe-source does works with any kernel supported by debian.

The latest upstream version (1.6.0) does not works too (last code
update was January 2002 because developer themself gave up the project
since cipe has no real reason to continue)

OpenVPN is more simple in config, uses existing kernel modules
(tun/tap modules), and the link is more reliable. On top of that
OpenVPN does not have "by design" weaknesses like the cipe protocol
has.

Due to very low popcon I think there is no reason to keep this
software in debian.

Regards

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Message #10 received at 428977@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Michael Ablassmeier <abi@grinser.de>

To: Marco Nenciarini <mnencia@debian.org>

Cc: control@bugs.debian.org, 428977@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: CIPE is abandoned upstream, icompatible with all unstable kernels, low popcon and obsoleted by openvpn

Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 16:18:22 +0200

severity 428977 normal
reassign 428977 ftp.debian.org
retitle 428977 RoM: cipe-source, cipe-common, pkcipe -- RoM; Orphaned, dead upstream, does not work with any debian kernel, low popcon, obsoleted by openvpn
thanks

hi

On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 12:17:00PM +0200, Marco Nenciarini wrote:
> The cipe-source does works with any kernel supported by debian.
> 
> The latest upstream version (1.6.0) does not works too (last code
> update was January 2002 because developer themself gave up the project
> since cipe has no real reason to continue)
> 
> OpenVPN is more simple in config, uses existing kernel modules
> (tun/tap modules), and the link is more reliable. On top of that
> OpenVPN does not have "by design" weaknesses like the cipe protocol
> has.
> 
> Due to very low popcon I think there is no reason to keep this
> software in debian.

the package has been orphaned for quite a while (close to one Year). I think
all these are sufficient reasons to have the package removed from the archive.

Reassigning to ftp.debian.org

bye,
    - michael

Message #25 received at 428977-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Debian Archive Maintenance <ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org>

To: 428977-close@bugs.debian.org

Cc: cipe@packages.debian.org, cipe@packages.qa.debian.org

Subject: Bug#428977: fixed

Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2007 12:45:01 +0000

We believe that the bug you reported is now fixed; the following
package(s) have been removed from unstable:

      cipe | 1.5.4free-12 | source
cipe-common | 1.5.4free-12 | all
cipe-source | 1.5.4free-12 | all
    pkcipe | 1.5.4free-12 | alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, hurd-i386, i386, ia64, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc

Note that the package(s) have simply been removed from the tag
database and may (or may not) still be in the pool; this is not a bug.
The package(s) will be physically removed automatically when no suite
references them (and in the case of source, when no binary references
it).  Please also remember that the changes have been done on the
master archive (ftp-master.debian.org) and will not propagate to any
mirrors (ftp.debian.org included) until the next cron.daily run at the
earliest.

Packages are never removed from testing by hand.  Testing tracks
unstable and will automatically remove packages which were removed
from unstable when removing them from testing causes no dependency
problems.

Bugs which have been reported against this package are not automatically
removed from the Bug Tracking System.  Please check all open bugs and
close them or re-assign them to another package if the removed package
was superseded by another one.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 428977@bugs.debian.org.

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