[gutsy] secvpn upgrade

Bug #152968 reported by Michael Lustfield
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This bug affects 28 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
secvpn (Ubuntu)
Won't Fix
Medium
Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: secvpn

michael@MPLUSTFIELDT01:~$ sudo apt-get install -f
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up secvpn (2.21) ...
Starting Monitor Daemon for Secure Virtual Private Network: cp: cannot stat `/etc/inittab': No such file or directory
invoke-rc.d: initscript secvpnmon, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing secvpn (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 secvpn
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
michael@MPLUSTFIELDT01:~$

Changed in secvpn:
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in secvpn:
assignee: nobody → kitterman
status: Confirmed → In Progress
Revision history for this message
Scott Kitterman (kitterman) wrote :

The more I look into this, the more I don't like it.

The secvpn package is old, unmaintained, and poorly designed from a security perspective. I'd recommend finding another VPN package. I intend to ask for this to be removed from the distro for the next release.

Changed in secvpn:
assignee: kitterman → nobody
status: In Progress → Won't Fix
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Key Schmidt (key-schmidt) wrote :

Why is this obsolete package still in the repo ???

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Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote :

If its "old, unmaintained, and poorly designed from a security perspective" lets remove it from the archive.

Subscribing ubuntu-archive for this.

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Vitaliy Kulikov (slonua) wrote :

agree =). do we have analog for such application !?

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Sezer Yalcin (sy-y) wrote :

Was this package "new, maintained and richly designed" when it was initially included in 12.04?

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