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Package: wnpp
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Owner: Bernhard Schmidt <berni@debian.org>
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* Package name : ovpn-dkms
Version : Git snapshot
Upstream Contact: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
* URL : https://github.com/OpenVPN/ovpn-backports/
* License : GPL-2.0
Programming Lang: C
Description : OpenVPN data channel offload (ovpn)

This DKMS module will provide a backport of the OpenVPN 2.7+ data channel offloading module that has been merged in Linux mainline 6.14+. I intend
to upload this to experimental and later to Forky as soon as it opens
up for development, together with OpenVPN 2.7 releases.

The main use would be to backport both to Trixie and Bookworm to get them proper in-the-field test coverage.

This package is basically the successor of openvpn-dco-dkms, the old out-of-tree DCO module only supported with OpenVPN 2.6. They can both
be coinstalled, OpenVPN will use the correct module.

I expect to be able to drop both for the Forky release.

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On Fri, 2025-05-16 at 00:55 +0200, Bernhard Schmidt wrote:

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Bernhard Schmidt <berni@debian.org>
X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org

* Package name : ovpn-dkms
Version : Git snapshot
Upstream Contact: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
* URL : https://github.com/OpenVPN/ovpn-backports/
* License : GPL-2.0
Programming Lang: C
Description : OpenVPN data channel offload (ovpn)

This DKMS module will provide a backport of the OpenVPN 2.7+ data channel offloading module that has been merged in Linux mainline 6.14+. I intend
to upload this to experimental and later to Forky as soon as it opens
up for development, together with OpenVPN 2.7 releases.

This seems a bit redundant with the kernel that will be in forky.

The main use would be to backport both to Trixie and Bookworm to get them proper in-the-field test coverage.

OK, I can see how it could be useful to provide backports.

This package is basically the successor of openvpn-dco-dkms, the old out-of-tree DCO module only supported with OpenVPN 2.6. They can both
be coinstalled, OpenVPN will use the correct module.

I expect to be able to drop both for the Forky release.

But once you do that, you will not be allowed to update the version in trixie-backports. So I'm not sure that this plan is going to work.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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