Re: Bug#90762: marked as done (general: openssh version 2.5.2 has not been packaged AFAIK)

[Tollef Fog Heen <tollef@add.no>]

* Branden Robinson 

| On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 11:14:13PM -0600, Gordon Sadler wrote:
| > > The subject of the bug report is perfectly accurate.
| > > 
| > Except for one small fact...
| 
| Except for nothing.  2.5.2p2 is available upstream and hasn't been packaged
| yet.

It has now, at least I saw the announcement on freshmeat.

| AFAICT from the changelog, 2.5.2 has only "minor bugfixes" over 2.5.1
| (although if I recall correctly from Solar Designer et al's paper on ssh
| traffic analysis, only 2.5.2 will have certain countermeasures to traffic
| analysis), so this is a perfectly legitimate "New upstream version
| available bug".

But usually those shouldn't be filed within hours of the new version
being released - that is only annoying.  And it should be filed
against the package in question, not against 'general'.

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Tollef Fog Heen
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