[needs-packaging] PeerGuardian Linux

Bug #109822 reported by Bryan Quigley
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Nominated for Jaunty by Brent Newland

Bug Description

I would like to see PeerGuardian Linux in the official repositories. It's not a good fit for the App model as it requires access to things like iptables to work.

"moblock-deb provides Debian packages of PeerGuardian Linux (pgl): PeerGuardian is a privacy oriented firewall application. It blocks connections to and from hosts specified in huge blocklists (thousands or millions of IP ranges). Its origins lie in targeting aggressive IPs while you use P2P."

Upstream: https://sourceforge.net/projects/peerguardian/
Debian packages: moblock-deb.sourceforge.net and https://launchpad.net/~jre-phoenix/+archive/ppa
Debian RFP: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=578192

Updates from C#11.. Thanks!

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Justin M. Wray (wray-justin) wrote :

I'll package this...

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Justin M. Wray (wray-justin) wrote :

Built, testing package. I'll let you know as things develop.

Thanks,
Justin M. Wray

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Dara Adib (daradib) wrote :
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Xavier Guillot (valeryan-24) wrote :

There are also some GUI for Moblock available now.

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Dara Adib (daradib) wrote :

Mobloquer is a popular MoBlock GUI.

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jre (jre-phoenix) wrote :

Hi, I'm jre, the maintainer of http://moblock-deb.sourceforge.net/. There I offer packages for moblock and mobloquer for Debian etch and lenny and Ubuntu Feisty, Gutsy, Hardy. Intrepid will be added soon.
Somehow I got subscribed to this thread, fine ;-)

Whoever is interested in adding MoBlock directly to the repos please just contact me: jre-phoenix<at>users.sourceforge.net
I'm no professional and my packages are far from being perfect. But still I think they are the best currently available by adding much stuff around MoBlock that is needed to use it. I always tried to adhere to any standards that I was aware of. So I'd be glad to see my packages in Ubuntu.
Far more I'd hope for another maintainer to cooperate development and do user support.
Because of time constraints currently I'm not interested to become an Ubuntu developer myself.
Greets
jre

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Xavier Guillot (valeryan-24) wrote :

Hello,

Any news about including Moblock and GUI Mobloquer on the Ubuntu packages ?

A new version (moblock-control 1.2) with some improvements just came out.

Best regards.

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jre (jre-phoenix) wrote :

Haven't heard anything.
But instead of moblock-control (1.2), its successor, the soon to be released blockcontrol (1.3), should be used.
At least for the officicial repository we should avoid this transition trouble.
The nearly finished version of blockcontrol is available here:
http://moblock-deb.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/moblock-deb/blockcontrol/

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jre (jre-phoenix) wrote :

Beginning with jaunty, I offer my moblock, mobloquer, blockcontrol and nfblock packages in my ppa here at launchpad (instead of moblock-deb.sourceforge.net, where other dists get their packages).

Use this apt sources.list entry:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/jre-phoenix/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/jre-phoenix/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main

Greets
jre

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Xavier Guillot (valeryan-24) wrote :

Thanks for having added Maverick support on your ppa, and continuing working on Moblock & pgl for Linux !

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jre (jre-phoenix) wrote :

The official successor of moblock, blockcontrol and mobloquer is PeerGuardian Linux (pgl). All previous authors agreed on that.

Upstream: https://sourceforge.net/projects/peerguardian/
Debian packages: moblock-deb.sourceforge.net and https://launchpad.net/~jre-phoenix/+archive/ppa
Debian RFP: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=578192

description: updated
summary: - [needs-packaging] moblock (peerguardian for linux)
+ [needs-packaging] PeerGuardian Linux
Changed in debian:
status: Unknown → New
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Bryan Quigley (bryanquigley) wrote :

Upstream project appears dead. Closing.

Changed in ubuntu:
status: Confirmed → Invalid
no longer affects: debian
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