Bug#732979: openssh-server Depends on openssh-client

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

Control: forcemerge 699473 732979

On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 03:04:34PM +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> And:
>   * Split the ssh binary package into openssh-client and openssh-server
>     (closes: #39741). openssh-server depends on openssh-client for some
>     common functionality; it didn't seem worth creating yet another package
>     for this. openssh-client is priority standard, openssh-server optional.
> 
> Later this got changed:
>   * Mark openssh-client and openssh-server as Multi-Arch: foreign.
> 
> As a result of only updating openssh-client, apt decided that it
> should remove openssh-client:amd64 and instead install openssh-client:i386,
> together with a bunch of i386 libraries.
> 
> I assume that it's only needing binaries in the -client package, so I guess
> that should have worked without problems.
> 
> But I'm really wondering why you need such a strict version requirement.

See my comments in #699473.  You could of course just have upgraded all
installed binary packages (e.g. "debi --upgrade" or "dpkg -iO
*_6.4p1-1.1_amd64.deb"), which would have been appropriate when testing
the NMU anyway.

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson@debian.org]