Hi, I am currently struggling to find time to keep riseup-vpn in shape, and I have to spend non-trivial amount of efforts to maintain it. I'd also appreciate if someone could actually test this from time to time on their own and help out with fixes. The recent QT update broke things here at least on my laptop and it'd be nice to have help from someone test and try out patches. I managed patches for this time but had to spend quite some cycles to debug it. One of the patches is quite bad, and I decided to not use it -- so a co-maintainer for such situations would be very helpful. If you are interested, please talk to me and I'd be happy to add you in to uploaders.
Hi Nilesh, I've been a regular user of Debian for about 4 years and a user of riseup vpn for almost 2 years. I've compiled riseup from source before it became a package in Debian. However, I have only rudimentary C++ programming skills and barely made a QT application for a hobby project. But I'd love to start contributing to the debian project and therefore help co-maintain riseup-vpn to the best of my abilities. Let me know how to proceed further, if its alright with you. Kind regards, Ganesh
Hi, Please note that I don't get mails on any bug report I (or anyone else) file(s) by default - it was only by chance that I saw this. Please CC me in future if you want me to read your mail/want a response. Do you have debian packaging experience - or are at least familiar? If not, I am unsure if co-maintenance would be a lot of help for me. But, at least so we start somewhere, could you check if my fix[1] for bug report #1124472 works? The full context is at the same bug report. If you could confirm this to be working, that'd be quite helpful for me. (Note that this is on stable with the version of the same in stable). Additionally, if you could also check if it works on an unstable system (with the version in unstable without any workarounds), that'd be nice too. Note that we would need pristine/clean systems to check this. So ideally a VM with default clean debian install with cinnamon. [1] https://salsa.debian.org/go-team/packages/riseup-vpn/-/commit/72e05d32edb189e7b24b44c8067a7a1c41f3db3d Best, Nilesh
Hi, I do not have any packaging experience unfortunately. I'm familiar with it as in read about it and watched some YT videos. - I've set up debuild and quilt as per [1] - apt source riseup-vpn - sudo apt build-dep riseup-vpn - dquilt new fixup-policykit-depends-in-a-better-way.patch - dquilt add debian/control - Update debian/control with whats provided in the patch - dquilt refresh - dquilt header -e <patch description> - dch -i - debuild -b -uc -us - Build finished with no errors - sudo dpkg -i ../riseup-vpn_0.24.10+ds1-1+deb13u1.1_amd64.deb - sudo apt install -f - sudo dpkg -i ../riseup-vpn_0.24.10+ds1-1+deb13u1.1_amd64.deb When I run it, I get the same error of "could not find polkit agent" as in #1124472. I checked my system and none of the policykits (which are ORed in the control file) are installed it seems. Maybe my way of resolving the dependencies is incorrect (apt install -f) if so do let me know. I say this because when I list the dependencies using dpkg, they do come up. Maybe apt is pulling just the dependencies of official riseup-vpn package in the repositories. Here is the result of 'dpkg -I ../riseup-vpn_0.24.10+ds1-1+deb13u1.1_amd64.deb' new Debian package, version 2.0. size 10117448 bytes: control archive=2168 bytes. 4373 bytes, 16 lines control 693 bytes, 10 lines md5sums Package: riseup-vpn Version: 0.24.10+ds1-1+deb13u1.1 Architecture: amd64 Maintainer: Debian Go Packaging Team <team+pkg-go@tracker.debian.org> Installed-Size: 26217 Depends: ca-certificates, iproute2, iptables, libqt6svg6, openvpn, pkexec, lxpolkit | lxqt-policykit | mate-polkit | polkit-kde-agent-1 | policykit-1-gnome | polkit-1-auth-agent, procps, python3:any, qml6-module-qtcore, qml6-module-qt-labs-platform, qml6-module-qt-labs-settings, qml6-module-qtquick-effects, qml6-module-qtqml-workerscript, qml6-module-qtquick, qml6-module-qtquick-controls, qml6-module-qtquick-dialogs, qml6-module-qtquick-layouts, qml6-module-qtquick-templates, qml6-module-qtquick-window, libc6 (>= 2.34), libgcc-s1 (>= 3.0), libqt6core6t64 (>= 6.8.2), libqt6gui6 (>= 6.1.2), libqt6qml6 (>= 6.6.0), libqt6widgets6 (>= 6.1.2), libstdc++6 (>= 5.2) Recommends: qt6-wayland Built-Using: golang-1.24 (= 1.24.4-1), golang-filippo-edwards25519 (= 1.0.0~rc1+git20210721-0.1), golang-github-andybalholm-brotli (= 1.1.1-1), golang-github-asaskevich-govalidator (= 11.0.1-1), golang-github-cespare-xxhash (= 2.3.0-1), golang-github-coreos-bbolt (= 1.3.10-2), golang-github-cretz-bine (= 0.2.0+ds-2), golang-github-go-logr-logr (= 1.4.2-2), golang-github-go-logr-stdr (= 1.2.2-4), golang-github-go-openapi-analysis (= 0.23.0-1), golang-github-go-openapi-errors (= 0.22.0-1), golang-github-go-openapi-jsonpointer (= 1:0.21.1-2), golang-github-go-openapi-jsonreference (= 1:0.21.0-1), golang-github-go-openapi-loads (= 0.22.0-1), golang-github-go-openapi-runtime (= 0.28.0-2), golang-github-go-openapi-spec (= 1:0.21.0-1), golang-github-go-openapi-strfmt (= 0.23.0-1), golang-github-go-openapi-swag (= 1:0.23.1-1), golang-github-go-openapi-validate (= 0.24.0-3), golang-github-google-uuid (= 1.6.0-1), golang-github-josharian-intern (= 1.0.0-3), golang-github-klauspost-compress (= 1.18.0+ds1-1), golang-github-klauspost-cpuid (= 2.2.10-1), golang-github-klauspost-reedsolomon (= 1.9.13-1), golang-github-lucas-clemente-quic-go (= 0.50.1-2), golang-github-mailru-easyjson (= 0.7.7-1), golang-github-mattn-go-colorable (= 0.1.13-1), golang-github-mattn-go-isatty (= 0.0.20-1), golang-github-mitchellh-go-homedir (= 1.1.0-1), golang-github-mitchellh-mapstructure (= 1.5.0+git20231216.8508981-1), golang-github-oklog-ulid (= 2.0.2+ds-2), golang-github-opentracing-opentracing-go (= 1.2.0-2), golang-github-pion-datachannel (= 1.5.5-1), golang-github-pion-dtls.v2 (= 2.2.6-1), golang-github-pion-ice.v2 (= 2.3.1-2), golang-github-pion-interceptor (= 0.1.12-1), golang-github-pion-logging (= 0.2.2-2), golang-github-pion-mdns (= 0.0.7-1), golang-github-pion-randutil (= 0.1.0-2), golang-github-pion-rtcp (= 1.2.10-1), golang-github-pion-rtp (= 1.7.13-1), golang-github-pion-sctp (= 1.8.6-1), golang-github-pion-sdp (= 3.0.10-1), golang-github-pion-srtp.v2 (= 2.0.12-1), golang-github-pion-stun (= 0.6.1-1), golang-github-pion-transport (= 2.0.2-1), golang-github-pion-turn.v2 (= 2.1.0-1), golang-github-pion-udp (= 2.0.1-1), golang-github-pion-webrtc.v3 (= 3.1.56-3), golang-github-pkg-errors (= 0.9.1-3), golang-github-prometheus-community-pro-bing (= 0.6.1-1), golang-github-protonmail-go-autostart (= 0.0~git20181114.c527205-2.1), golang-github-rs-zerolog (= 1.29.1-1), golang-github-templexxx-cpu (= 0.1.0-1), golang-github-templexxx-xorsimd (= 0.4.1-2), golang-github-tjfoc-gmsm (= 1.3.0+ds-4), golang-github-xtaci-kcp (= 5.6.1-2), golang-github-xtaci-smux (= 1.5.16+ds-1), golang-gitlab-yawning-edwards25519-extra (= 0.0~git20211229.2f91fcc-3), golang-go.crypto (= 1:0.25.0-1), golang-golang-x-exp (= 0.0~git20231006.7918f67-2), golang-golang-x-net (= 1:0.27.0-2), golang-golang-x-sync (= 0.7.0-1), golang-golang-x-sys (= 0.22.0-1), golang-golang-x-text (= 0.22.0-1), golang-gopkg-yaml.v3 (= 3.0.1-3), golang-goptlib (= 1.6.0-3), golang-mongodb-mongo-driver (= 1.17.1+ds1-2), golang-opentelemetry-otel (= 1.31.0-4), golang-refraction-networking-utls (= 1.2.1-3.1), snowflake (= 2.5.1-1) Section: net Priority: optional Homepage: https://0xacab.org/leap/bitmask-vpn Description: Easy, fast, and secure VPN service from riseup.net Riseup offers Personal VPN service for censorship circumvention, location anonymization and traffic encryption. To make this possible, it sends all user's internet traffic through an encrypted connection to riseup.net, where it then goes out onto the public internet. [1] https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/ Kind regards, Ganesh
As you may have noticed, this is a bit of a complicated package, so I'd recommend trying to maintain something simple first. But if you still feel like taking up the challenge and are up for doing upstream updates, testing, fixing code downstream and sending them upstream (which has been quite frequent lately), feel free to add yourself as one of the uploaders. There's actually no need to add files inside debian directory to quilt patches. These can be directly modified. It actually does and I realized this is a bug even in unstable. Cinnamon provides "polkit-1-auth-agent" virtual package which is listed there. I've added a patch and uploaded to stable, unstable and backports. Changes are in the salsa repository - debian/sid, debian/trixie-pu, debian/trixie-backports branches respectively. If you could still build the package from trixie-pu branch and confirm that it fixed the issue (I know it does, but still), that'd be cool.
Hi, Apologies for the delayed response - I was trying to fix my laptop for about a month. Though I'd like to take up the challenge, I need some initial mentoring. So I'll try to maintain / co-maintain a simpler package, gain some experience and then get back onto riseup-vpn if it is still in WNPP. And yes, I've tried the patch and it does fix the issue.
Hello, I will not be able to maintain riseup-vpn any further and have performed an upload with my name dropped from the Uploaders field. Hence, anyone interested may join the go packaging team and add themselves as uploaders for this package. Some (Build-)Dependencies of riseup-vpn have also no uploader, so consider doing the same for those package as well, if you want to maintain riseup-vpn. Thanks, Nilesh
Hello, Bug #1117550 in riseup-vpn reported by you has been fixed in the Git repository and is awaiting an upload. You can see the commit message below and you can check the diff of the fix at: https://salsa.debian.org/go-team/packages/riseup-vpn/-/commit/ced4594f19dccb9e949cbb439690162308fd1806 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ d/control: Add myself as uploader (Closes: #1117550) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ (this message was generated automatically) -- Greetings https://bugs.debian.org/1117550
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of riseup-vpn, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive. A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is attached. Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you have further comments please address them to 1117550@bugs.debian.org, and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate. Debian distribution maintenance software pp. Matthias Geiger <werdahias@debian.org> (supplier of updated riseup-vpn package) (This message was generated automatically at their request; if you believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org) Format: 1.8 Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2026 16:49:56 +0200 Source: riseup-vpn Architecture: source Version: 0.25.8+ds3-6 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Debian Go Packaging Team <team+pkg-go@tracker.debian.org> Changed-By: Matthias Geiger <werdahias@debian.org> Closes: 1117550 Changes: riseup-vpn (0.25.8+ds3-6) unstable; urgency=medium . * d/control: Add myself as uploader (Closes: #1117550) Checksums-Sha1: ad5dac2c50a70552baf222bee7d3e3744a1ee296 3817 riseup-vpn_0.25.8+ds3-6.dsc 08d15b9a262155241c85f1059cdf774fbd236b0d 12548 riseup-vpn_0.25.8+ds3-6.debian.tar.xz 9f849ff23dca95852ff9291f5e70cfc28dea9937 9734708 riseup-vpn_0.25.8+ds3-6.git.tar.xz e4dd670ab46a4dd19d82acff2d174462bcf2fd2b 17584 riseup-vpn_0.25.8+ds3-6_source.buildinfo Checksums-Sha256: caa476e5f479cd2c4839ed46bf86ac95822b4f91c3bba4f8333617b93192748f 3817 riseup-vpn_0.25.8+ds3-6.dsc e89d1738393a99b9975c2937800574eaa2f4519c529f948f91dfa88266630ee0 12548 riseup-vpn_0.25.8+ds3-6.debian.tar.xz 63d43b3a9625331ca5d958e237fb63bd095106ed05889f6faa084ed63b778be6 9734708 riseup-vpn_0.25.8+ds3-6.git.tar.xz 860be87cb2f0589ed01d05de8c088f97bacfb85c542bdecf4955cb00bdc5b2c3 17584 riseup-vpn_0.25.8+ds3-6_source.buildinfo Files: 178ae2b3b46fa181f069011a09de738a 3817 net optional riseup-vpn_0.25.8+ds3-6.dsc 7f439b4081e39bf13a1961cd4fc97bb3 12548 net optional riseup-vpn_0.25.8+ds3-6.debian.tar.xz b430f288a5c445acd70572114dc7631c 9734708 net None riseup-vpn_0.25.8+ds3-6.git.tar.xz 15aec9c7fc5cffaded6b5466aa04889f 17584 net optional riseup-vpn_0.25.8+ds3-6_source.buildinfo Git-Tag-Info: tag=071688483c0ccaf84552c96a7f858fc5e19c3ef5 fp=14593bff4a5ebf6fe0e9716eecbedbb607b9b2be Git-Tag-Tagger: Matthias Geiger <werdahias@debian.org> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCgAdFiEEN02M5NuW6cvUwJcqYG0ITkaDwHkFAmqBzz8ACgkQYG0ITkaD wHmS2xAA5KORRHvJ8nhbfIZPrGpBnxi95l5kUuTcrm1y0Zy+QeVz1kxADAtKRLe4 qDViehSd510WK0AjcXzx+s6nJzhdRsVhNHOTqHhNTJ0q9Zvl5fm3HRc6UXUIUA7/ om0TyAQCz5EfdegcL7bas/vBwsFEruPS/2gp8uK49sHpzoMWxQ7izy9RDCUbRljZ Fmwp9gq4NE/lLp4I8Fzi4gjA4MD8H0mFiifZ2trpcY5V9yujDGp1roFEZhFpxebv IJfw2N/rf0Lh2KcDjXYKIDSvOcQjzYuXlNxN0fvVYM5+BgZhmXbzbV+TalEpnZZT 9yHekWHIC23hkFgCjmivnZK3lfHDgJeRV89yrpOaXasdPGI+NH11Yp3H+/PQQ4Br k8BNawhhcTKsOKcongVd6X6wqzq/76YpiShpGIh6BgFk54LNnmk9F3ZcCZuUN4ce smPfecNTjIoVw20KhgcGjAoMv23RCsVobWaZ6gIKFF1wwwYCMTJZHO798UwHS+RZ pGoczJXJJeKCGI5llyazrW/zniiFo6+/69dle8XpjKLztuGkXtiijH9brAOnwWeF PvtdZrP3pyo95/AW5MzVOvpMgemGKUv30SzC758kPNnv0L/fXyPYjENHmTXnZN5a LKbY9PrTTvLuRxmTHgcyIDc8Vm3C8HIQHzjTzMofZ43dTKMQUJQ= =ybGV -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----