Comment 7 for bug 277447

Well, it's been 2 years since OpenVPN 2.1_rc1 so you should probably not consider them as "release candidates", but rather as "development releases". They are at rc12 today without any sign that a "real release" is near. It's been changing rapidly in the recent months because there was some invasive security fix in rc9 that resulted in a lot of breakdown (including this one). However I agree that merging with Debian's rc11-1 (which is functionally equivalent to rc12) is probably a good idea given the number of bugs fixed in the recent releases.