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Re: Bug#594295: openssh-client: Please either support or ignore ControlPersist in stable, for compatibility



Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> writes:
> On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 11:44:47PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
>> Thank you for packaging 5.6, and thanks to upstream for the awesome
>> ControlPersist support.
>> 
>> I use the same home directory across many systems, some running stable,
>> and some running unstable.  This means I can't use any option in
>> ~/.ssh/config that stable's ssh does not support, because that would
>> break compatibility with the systems that run stable.  Given the usual
>> lifetime of a Debian stable release, it would help greatly if stable's
>> ssh would either support ControlPersist, or at a minimum ignore it for
>> compatibility.
> I can sympathise with this.  I'd rather make it do something useful than
> ignore it.  However, since we're frozen, I'm CCing the release team for
> their input.

Yes, please!

Marc
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