Comment 44 for bug 872824

Excerpts from Enrico Tagliavini's message of 2013-02-12 16:02:35 UTC:
> It would be extremely nice if someone would make an update about the
> Precise situation. This is a very major bug for an LTS, and the last
> update was in September. 12.10 works like a charm but I'm willing to
> deploy strongswan IPSEC vpn and this is blocking me from using ubuntu
> 12.04 for clients.
>
> Please at least explain what's blocking the fix to land in Precise. Adam
> in comment #34 said " I'll get some packages built for precise and see
> if we can't get them tested and sponsored.". Well I'm more then happy to
> test them, but I wonder what does he mean with sponsored.

Hi Enrico. You may not realize this, but StrongSWAN is not supported
officially by the Ubuntu project. It is part of the "universe" component
which is a best-effort by the community to bring most of what is in
Debian but not in Ubuntu's main archive to Ubuntu users. Often Canonical
employees (who are members of the community too) are able to spend
some time on these packages, but it is lower in priority to supporting
seeded/main packages.

If this is costing you money, you may want to think about hiring a
consultant to fix this in Ubuntu. I'm sure Canonical's support would be
willing to fix it for a fee.