Bug#231472: Bug#240077: ssh: why not to compile with opensc?

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

tags 240077 - experimental sid
merge 231472 240077
thanks

On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 07:02:41PM +0100, Alessandro Razeto wrote:
> Package: ssh
> Version: 1:3.8p1-2
> Severity: wishlist
> Tags: experimental sid
> 
> I think it could be usefull to compile ssh with opensc support, which
> is already included in the source files. 
> One need only to add to debian/rules the --opensc=/usr directive to
> configure and add the source dependancy to libopensc0-dev.

Wouldn't that produce a binary package that depends on libopensc0,
thereby requiring everyone with ssh to install that library? It would
have to be a separate package, and I have concerns about the
maintainability of that approach.

Please search for existing bugs before filing new ones, by the way;
searching for "opensc" in ssh's bug page immediately finds #231472.

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]