Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Simon Josefsson <[email protected]>

There was a package 'lsh' in Debian but removed back in 2005:

https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/lsh

All those uploads are below the 2.1 version of GNU lsh that I intend to
package, so there would not ever be any version conflict between binary
packages, and no need to start with an epoch as far as I can see.

I am not certain it is permitted to re-use an earlier source package
name for a different package.  Is that okay?

If there is a problem, I suggest 'gnu-lsh' as the source package name,
to avoid conflict.  We could still use 'lsh' for the binaries because
that should be no problem; compare the recent 'git-merge-changelog'
introduction, which took over the binary name of another source package.

I think re-using the 'lsh' source name would be fine, since the earlier
package was removed 20+ years ago in Debian.

* Package name    : lsh
  Version         : 2.1
  Upstream Author : Niels Möller, et al
* URL             : https://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/lsh/
* License         : GPL-2.0
  Programming Lang: C
  Description     : A GNU implementation of the Secure Shell protocols

  lsh is a free implementation (in the GNU sense) of the ssh version 2
  protocol, standardised by the IETF SECSH working group.

Hope to package and maintain 'lsh' from here:

https://salsa.debian.org/debian/lsh

/Simon

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