Hi,
the recent EPEL 10 branch request for ufw reminded me of this:
I would like to hand out UFW, the Uncomplicated FireWall, (Fedora package
"ufw") to one or more packagers who are more interested in it than me.
I packaged UFW a few years ago as part of the Kannolo effort, because
ufw-kde was at the time the only viable firewall GUI for KDE. This has
changed nowadays: We have plasma-firewall, which has a firewalld backend,
and the firewalld frontend manafirewall, which uses libyui and can hence
use Qt. So my interest in UFW has waned.
The current UFW package in Fedora is outdated (version 0.35, current is
0.36.2) and heavily patched (because Canonical's interpretation of the FHS
does not match mine – not sure how many of my path changes are actually
strictly required by the Fedora Packaging Guidelines, but I felt them
necessary). It needs upgrading to the latest version.
There is also the ufw-kde package, which is dead upstream, stuck in kdelibs
4 (!) land, and only works at all because I wrapped the KCM in a .desktop
file running kcmshell4 (and because kcmshell4 was not unilaterally removed
from the distribution as kcmshell5 was). If that no longer builds with the
latest UFW, it will probably have to simply be retired. Users will need to
use the CLI or another frontend (such as plasma-firewall). If it still
builds and runs, I guess I can keep it as long as it does. Unlike ufw
itself, upstream for ufw-kde is dead, so there is basically no packaging
work to do.
I also have to wonder whether we really want to do this work or whether we
just want to keep UFW orphaned until it ends up automatically retired.
Plasma Firewall can be built without it (with only the firewalld backend).
Kind regards,
Kevin Kofler
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