On 03/16/2010 05:05 PM, mike castleman wrote: > The traditional use of monkeysphere is to authenticate SSH connections; > however, with the introduction of the msva[1] into Debian, it can also > be used to authenticate HTTPS connections. So openssh-client should not > be required anymore. Perhaps it should be recommended or suggested.
openssh-client provides ssh-keygen, which monkeysphere and
monkeysphere-host both use for fingerprinting keys. (Other ssh
components are used in the ssh-proxycommand and update-known_hosts
subcommands, but those could reasonably fail with an informative error
message if openssh-client were not installed).
While it would be nice to move them to a Recommends, i don't think it's
feasible because of the use of ssh-keygen at the moment. Maybe we
should to a simple replacement for that in our perl shim?
Seems like this might be worth filing as an upstream ticket as well,
since a change like that it would affect other distributions too.
> Also, I don't know what that procmail dependency is doing there, and
> maybe I don't want to know.
It's for lockfile; the dependency is actually lockfile-progs | procmail.
you probably already had procmail on your system, so apt didn't bother
with lockfile-progs.
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