Re: Problem importing OpenVPN profile in Linux Mint 18.3 x64 cinnamon

["David H. Durgee" <dhdurgee verizon net>]

Thomas Haller wrote:
> On Thu, 2018-02-22 at 12:34 -0500, David H. Durgee wrote:
> > Thomas Haller wrote:
> > > The proper solution is to add support for this option. Patches
> > > welcome.
> > I doubt my programming skills are up to a patch for this.  Is this
> > one
> > on the list somewhere of addition options to be supported?  If not,
> > can
> > it be added?
> Hi,
>
>
> I did something, it's on review:
>    https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=793746
>    
>
> >    In either case, any idea of when it might be available?
> > Is there a release schedule for the plugin?
> Releases are done infrequently. Also, your distribution might not
> rebase the package to a new upstream release, and it might not be
> willing to backport new features in the current release of the
> distribution. But that depends...
>
>
>
> > Given that I only need to use the service when taking my laptop out
> > of
> > the office I believe I can live with continuing to use openvpn
> > directly
> > until the plugin supports the <extra-certs> option. I doubt that
> > private
> > tunnel is the only service using this option, so I suspect others
> > are
> > also encountering it and adding support to the plugin should be done
> > at
> > some point.
> Maybe it's a pain point for many user. But I never saw a feature
> request about it, and there is (AFAIK) no open RFE on
> bugzilla.gnome.org.
> Be that as it may, it's easy to add.
>
>
> best,
> Thomas
Thank you for your effort on this issue.  My release of mint is based 
upon ubuntu xenial and that is where the openvpn plugin is packaged.  So 
if your work passes review and is released I would expect to see it when 
ubuntu adds it to their repository.  As this is an LTS release I would 
expect updates to be made, but I have no idea how quickly it would be done.

If for some reason ubuntu does not update their repository, do you also 
maintain a PPA for your releases?  I have added a few PPAs to my 
configuration to address products that are not updated as part of mint 
or ubuntu and could add another one if needed and available.

Thank you once again for your assistance in sorting this issue out.

Dave