news
Debian: Freexian, strongSwan, Model-Based System Design
-
Freexian Collaborators: Debian Contributions: Security-tracker git performance, OpenSSH GSS-API split, Incus replacing lxc in Debian CI and more! (by Anupa Ann Joseph)
At the beginning of this month, the default backend for tests was changed to incus-lxc, leaving only a few dozen packages explicitly configured to run as lxc. Those packages got bug reports filed and once those bugs are fixed they will be migrated over to incus-lxc. This marks an important milestone for Debian CI, as the low level of isolation between the worker host OS and the OS under test when using lxc was a significant source of instability in our platform. Common causes for test failures when comparing runs under plain lxc with runs with incus-lxc are documented in the wiki page linked from the bug reports.
-
Yves-Alexis Perez: IKEv1 protocol disabled in strongSwan package for Debian unstable
Heads up, Debian IKE/IPsec users.
Starting with strongSwan 6.1.0-1 (currently in Debian unstable and targeted at Debian 14 Forky), the IKEv1 protocol has been disabled. This is aligned with upstream decision. Considering IKEv2 is already nearly old enough to drink in the USA (RFC 4306 will turn 21 next December) and IKEv1 has weaknesses, the disabling is long overdue amd will permit upstream to remove some code in the upcoming years.
-
Cross-Platform MBSD Without the S-Function Headache: Using coder.ExternalDependency to Deploy a Single Simulink Model Across Linux and QNX
Model-Based System Design promises a single model that generates deployable code for any target. That promise holds up well until you need to integrate custom C code that wraps a third-party precompiled library, and that same generated code needs to run on both a Debian Linux host and a QNX RTOS node participating in the same network. At that point, the “single model” promise starts to feel hollow.