On Thu, Sep 08, 2011 at 08:09:10PM +0200, Dora Paula wrote: > The LPK-patch seems to be obsolete in the near future because a by > far more flexible, powerfull and even smaller patch has been > discussed upstream and already been published within upstream's > bugzilla. > > Related upstream discussion can be accessed here: > http://marc.info/?l=openssh-unix-dev&m=127617868901534&w=2 > > The patch against 5.8p2 is published here: > https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1663 > > And last but not least: > "This feature is included in last releases of Fedora and RHEL6 > products." (stated here: > https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1663#c18) > > In my opinion the chances seem to be quite good that this patch (or > at least its principle) will be integrated into upstream's release > and there is no need for lpk in the future any more.
This is great news, but I would rather wait for that to actually happen; at a minimum, for it to be committed to OpenSSH proper. As I said in message #10 on this bug, I've had too many bad experiences with integrating what looked like a perfectly reasonable patch into Debian only to find that upstream changed its name when they committed it and then I was stuck carrying a compatibility patch. Once (or several times) bitten, twice shy. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [[email protected]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
