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  • Committer: Teddy Hogeborn
  • Date: 2016-02-28 03:01:43 UTC
  • mto: (237.7.594 trunk)
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  • Revision ID: teddy@recompile.se-20160228030143-i6w90r7wzkvlx9kq
Stop using python-gnutls.  Use GnuTLS 3.3 or later directly.

* INSTALL: Document dependency on GnuTLS 3.3 and remove dependency on
          Python-GnuTLS.

* debian/control (Source: mandos/Build-Depends): Add (>= 3.3.0) to
                                                 "libgnutls28-dev" and
                                                 "gnutls-dev".
  (Source: mandos/Build-Depends-Indep): Remove "python2.7-gnutls".
  (Package: mandos/Depends): Remove "python-gnutls" and
                             "python2.7-gnutls", add "libgnutls28-dev
                             (>= 3.3.0) | libgnutls30 (>= 3.3.0)"
* mandos: Remove imports of "gnutls" and all submodules.
  (GnuTLS, gnutls): New; simulate a "gnutls" module.  Change all
                    callers to match new shorter names.

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<!DOCTYPE refentry PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
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        "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
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<!ENTITY COMMANDNAME "mandos-client">
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<!ENTITY TIMESTAMP "2012-06-13">
 
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<!ENTITY TIMESTAMP "2015-07-20">
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<!ENTITY % common SYSTEM "../common.ent">
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%common;
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    <copyright>
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      <year>2008</year>
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      <year>2009</year>
 
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      <year>2010</year>
 
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      <year>2011</year>
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      <year>2012</year>
 
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      <year>2013</year>
 
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      <year>2014</year>
 
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      <year>2015</year>
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      <holder>Teddy Hogeborn</holder>
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      <holder>Björn Påhlsson</holder>
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    </copyright>
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      </arg>
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      <sbr/>
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      <arg>
 
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        <option>--dh-params <replaceable>FILE</replaceable></option>
 
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      </arg>
 
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      <sbr/>
 
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      <arg>
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        <option>--delay <replaceable>SECONDS</replaceable></option>
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      </arg>
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      <sbr/>
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            assumed to separate the address from the port number.
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          </para>
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          <para>
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            This option is normally only useful for testing and
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            debugging.
 
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            Normally, Zeroconf would be used to locate Mandos servers,
 
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            in which case this option would only be used when testing
 
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            and debugging.
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          </para>
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        </listitem>
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      </varlistentry>
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        <term><option>--interface=<replaceable
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        >NAME</replaceable></option></term>
 
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        >NAME</replaceable><arg rep='repeat'>,<replaceable
 
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        >NAME</replaceable></arg></option></term>
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        <term><option>-i
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        <replaceable>NAME</replaceable></option></term>
 
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        <replaceable>NAME</replaceable><arg rep='repeat'>,<replaceable
 
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        >NAME</replaceable></arg></option></term>
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        <listitem>
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          <para>
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            Comma separated list of network interfaces that will be
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            use all appropriate interfaces.
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          </para>
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          <para>
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            If the <option>--connect</option> option is used, this
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            specifies the interface to use to connect to the address
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            given.
 
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            If the <option>--connect</option> option is used, and
 
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            exactly one interface name is specified (except
 
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            <quote><literal>none</literal></quote>), this specifies
 
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            the interface to use to connect to the address given.
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          </para>
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          <para>
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            Note that since this program will normally run in the
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            <replaceable>NAME</replaceable> can be the string
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          <para>
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            Sets the number of bits to use for the prime number in the
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            TLS Diffie-Hellman key exchange.  Default is 1024.
 
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            TLS Diffie-Hellman key exchange.  The default value is
 
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            Specifies a PEM-encoded PKCS#3 file to read the parameters
 
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        Search for Mandos servers (and connect to them) using another
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