Why is this not in bionic 18.04?

[Bio Mon]

TLDR: Please give us a ssh tunnel manager gui!

Why is this software not in bionic anymore?
What was the problem and who could / would like to fix that?

From what I understand there is no visual ssh tunnel manager by default in Ubuntu 18.04 - this is a big usability problem, as no normal user ever understands what a ssh tunnel is - but with a visual manager I was able to provide averagge people with the ability to establish ssh tunnels.

There is one alternative by Brandon Williams:
https://code.launchpad.net/~opensource-subakutty/tunnelmanager/devel

if you just throw out such an important gui tool it would be great to consider replacing it with something similar to not produce a lack of options. Ubuntu is great, but these little tools make advanced tech available for average users and that makes it magic! Please consider adding the tunnel manager by Brandon to the release or please build gstm for 18.04.

Also any advice would be very appreciated about any alternative - I did some research if network-manager could replace a tunnel manager gui, and there is one simple ssh plugin, but it can not compete with the both softwares mentioned above, as it lacks the possibility to setup multiple tunnels for one connection. gstm was just ok, Brandons tool is also very nice and maybe he feels motivated to polish it when used as an official package.

Thank you very much for your attention!

[Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd)]

Thanks for taking your time to report this issue and help making Ubuntu better.

According to the publishing history for this package (can be found in the upper right corner on the overview page, or see https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gstm/+publishinghistory) it was removed from bionic due to:
"(From Debian) RoQA; unmaintained; depends on deprecated GNOME 2 libraries; Debian bug #891443"

See also https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=891443.

Presumably if the project replaced the usage of older, deprecated GNOME 2 libaries to currently supported ones, the package could be reintroduced.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Fredde (fredde-iki)]

This tool was essential for my work, so when it stopped working, and I couldn't find anything similar, I created my own version.

It's still alpha and somewhat buggy, but it gets the job done and I use it every day. Feel free to try it out, and (if you're good with Python and GTK) please help me improve on it!

Tunnelman on github: https://github.com/subsite/tunnelman

[Dallen Wilson (dallen.wilson)]

I took the time to update gSTM for gtk3 and removed the gnome dependencies. Source is available at https://github.com/dallenwilson/gstm along with links to packages for Ubuntu and Gentoo.