Re: Bug#183839: ITP: gtk2-ssh-askpass -- A small ssh-askpass replacement written with gtk2
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 05:15:23PM -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 14:52, Colin Watson wrote:
> > That's GNOME2, not plain GTK2. Some people don't want all the
> > dependencies, some do.
>
> Ok, right. Well, honestly, I can't think of a good reason for
> ssh-askpass to depend on GNOME. It doesn't need session management, it
> doesn't need a virtual file system, it's small enough that using glade
> would be overkill, etc.
>
> [...time passes...]
>
> I just looked at the source for gnome-ssh-askpass2.c. It doesn't
> actually use GNOME.
Interesting, you're right. It links with a whole load of libraries, so I
assumed it must be GNOME, but I guess that's GTK these days. ;)
> So the author of gtk2-ssh-askpass should get talking with the OpenSSH
> people about including the improvements he's made (if any) in his
> version in OpenSSH. Having two floating around is silly.
I agree. -> openssh-unix-dev@mindrot.org
> > As I said to this bug report (although not copied to -devel), the change
> > is sitting in my home directory ready for my next upload.
>
> That's great news!
>
> Incidentally, I don't see where you say this in the bug report logs.
> But no big deal.
Sorry, I expected to be able to upload it rather earlier than now, but
my life has kind of been running at high speed lately. I'll do my best
to get it out this weekend.
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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