On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 02:34:22PM +0200, Herwin Weststrate wrote:
On 24-09-15 14:14, Matthew Newton wrote:
Does anyone know if there is an active Debian maintainer at the moment? Testing has a fairly recent version 2, but there's no version 3 in sight. Keep thinking I should have a hack at it myself, but I'd probably get too frustrated without being able to just go up to the latest version. Cherry-picking bugfixes isn't my idea of fun when there's already a released version out that fixes the problem.
The official maintainer (Josip Rodin) seems to be MIA or retired. The latest Debian release (Jessie, released in april this year) has been updated to 2.2 instead of 2.1, which at least resolves a number of problems, those have been Non-Maintainer Uploads from Sam Hartman (he also contributed a thing or two to upstream FreeRADIUS). I remember him saying that he wanted to package 3.0.x too, but I can't find it anymore.
Ah, yes - it's Sam's name I remember, but couldn't find as any of the current freeradius packages maintainers. I'm sure the package name will need to change to freeradius3 for the official Debian version because of the extensive config changes required, but that doesn't show up anywhere either. It shouldn't be too hard to get a package made up, based on the existing debian/ dir in the source tree, I'm sure - it'll have to be set to a 3.0 format (not native) and a few other bits. As with all things, guess it just needs a bit of TLC. Added note is that the current debian package in FR doesn't build cleanly - first time make fails with rlm_sqlhpwippool (which is odd as it's not listed in 'stable') but re-run dpkg-buildpackage and the second time it works fine, which indicates another problem because the debian/rules clean isn't cleaning up properly :) Trying to work this one out at the moment for our local install, but I'm going to have to stop shortly for other things so will continue next week if possible. Matthew -- Matthew Newton, Ph.D. <mcn4@le.ac.uk> Systems Specialist, Infrastructure Services, I.T. Services, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, United Kingdom For IT help contact helpdesk extn. 2253, <ithelp@le.ac.uk>