On Tue, Feb 27, 2024 at 07:26:33PM +0000, [email protected] wrote: > Request #48783 has been Rejected by serebit:
One thing that the original request missed is that this binary package is actually a pacman package that can be installed with `pacman -U`, meaning the whole thing is a useless unpackaging and repackaging of the same thing. Also, upstream binary releases of OpenSSH [0] are not a thing, this is a binary package generated by the maintainer from openssh-dotconfig [1]; AFAIU, the rules only allow for binary packages provided by upstream. Besides, this type of packages are better suited in a custom pacman repository, which the maintainer is free to share. (BTW, if you download the binary and inspect the `.BUILDINFO` file you'll see it was not compiled in a clean chroot.) > Not a substantial enough reason for deletion. This package falls under > the rule that patched versions of packages in the official > repositories are allowed. This is of course reasonable, but I find hard to believe that doing `sed -i 's#\.ssh#.config/ssh/g#'` on every source file and calling it a day constitute "patching" [2], specially on something critical as OpenSSH. This matches strings such as 'host.ssh-ed25519' [3] which may have unintended consequences. Just my two cents. [0] https://www.openssh.com/portable.html [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/openssh-dotconfig [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=openssh-dotconfig#n80 [3] https://github.com/openssh/openssh-portable/blob/master/regress/servcfginclude.sh#L6
