Note that this has the potential of breaking existing scripts, so it's probably not a good SRU candidate.
** Tags added: bitesize -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to openssh in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1661745 Title: ssh-keyscan does not exit with non-zero return code on error Status in portable OpenSSH: Unknown Status in openssh package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in openssh package in Debian: Fix Released Bug description: On xenial, ssh-keyscan returns zero indicating success, when the command fails. root@cp1:~# lsb_release -d Description: Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS root@cp1:~# ssh-keyscan -H -t ssh-rsa bad-host getaddrinfo bad-host: Name or service not known root@cp1:~# echo $? 0 On trusty, the exit status is non-zero as expected. root@integration-deployer:/home/ubuntu# lsb_release -d Description: Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS root@integration-deployer:/home/ubuntu# ssh-keyscan -H -t ssh-rsa bad-host getaddrinfo bad-host: Name or service not known root@integration-deployer:/home/ubuntu# echo $? 255 This is a incompatibility between Ubuntu 14.04 and 16.04 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/openssh/+bug/1661745/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
