Can some provenpackager bump openvpn in EL-5

[Jon Ciesla]

Jon Ciesla wrote:
> Jussi Lehtola wrote:
>> On Wed, 2009-12-30 at 16:35 +0530, Huzaifa Sidhpurwala wrote:
>>  
>>> Jussi Lehtola wrote:
>>>    
>>>> Even though any proven packager could do the change, that bug does not
>>>> fall in the items listed in the proven packager policy [1]. You 
>>>> haven't
>>>> listed any problems with the current package, you're just requesting a
>>>> version upgrade.
>>>>
>>>>       
>>> The version of openvpn in EPEL is an upstream rc version.
>>> The Changelog file upstream shows a lot of bugs have been fixed and it
>>> would be nice to have it fixed in EPEL too.
>>>     
>>
>> OK, that's starting to sound better.
>>
>>  
>>>> Version upgrades should be performed by the package maintainer. This
>>>> especially holds in EPEL, which should be a slowly moving 
>>>> distribution.
>>>>
>>>>       
>>> In this case the bz is around 2.5 weeks old, with absolutely  no 
>>> response.
>>> What is the policy to get the package updated in this case?
>>>     
>>
>> See the nonresponsive maintainer policy at
>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Policy_for_nonresponsive_package_maintainers 
>>
>>   
> Actually, FYI, I'm a provenpackager and have recently contacted the 
> openvpn maintainer.  There are quite a few open bugs, including yours, 
> and I requested his approval to take a look at the open bugs and make 
> changes, updates, etc, and he gave me the green light.  I'll try to 
> get to this this week.
>
> Essentially, he's not been doing much with Fedora lately due to Real 
> Life intervening, which I can certainly understand.
>
> -J
>
An update for F-12 is on it's way to testing.  I'm using it now with no 
issues, but I can't test the boot bug, as the machine acting as my 
openvpn server isn't using NetworkManager.  That said, it should work.  
Please test and let me know if changes need to be made.

-J

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