Bug#1070098: openssh-sftp-server: False dependency on openssh-client
On Mon, Apr 29, 2024 at 10:19:14PM -0500, Wolf wrote:
> Only the openssh-sftp-server package to be installed, as it has no ties to the
> openssh-client files and is in fact only used by the server side components.
It's not precisely a false dependency:
$ ls -l /usr/share/doc/openssh-sftp-server
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Feb 26 12:26 /usr/share/doc/openssh-sftp-server -> openssh-client
This saves a bit of space if all the packages are installed together,
which is the common case. However, it's true that it's not very much
space (200K or so), so maybe it's not worth the resulting confusion ...
> Related but dropbear-bin also has a suggestion to install openssh-client,
> however dropbear-bin includes all relevant key-generation tools natively,
> so perhaps this 'Suggestion' should point to openssh-sftp-server instead?
You'll have to report that as a separate bug - I don't maintain the
dropbear packages.
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Colin Watson (he/him) [cjwatson@debian.org]
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