Bug#433181: openssh: Manpages are outdated
tags 433181 fixed-upstream
thanks
On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 02:18:58PM +0200, Yannick P. wrote:
> Colin Watson wrote:
> > Are you sure this isn't simply that the datestamps on the man pages
> > haven't been updated?
>
> In fact, no, I'm not sure...
> For example Debian's man page of ssh must be newer than 1999 because it
> seems there are references to 2006 year in "See also" section.
It was a rhetorical question: in fact I am certain that our man pages
are from the latest OpenSSH upstream release.
On further investigation, the inaccurate date has been fixed in upstream
CVS such that it will be kept up to date automatically from now on.
> But for sshd man page:
>
> Section AUTHENTIFICATION, end of the third paragraph:
>
> OpenSSH's web site:
> >a crypto-graphic message authentication code (hmac-md5, hmac-sha1,
> >umac-64 or hmac-ripemd160).
>
> Debian's man page:
> >a crypto‐graphic message authentication code (hmac-sha1 or hmac-md5).
>
>
> There are also other small differences.
As http://www.openssh.org/manual.html says, "These manual pages reflect
the latest development release of OpenSSH". What they mean by that is
that they are generated based on the current code in CVS. The Debian
packages are of *stable* releases of OpenSSH; that is how it should be
and is not a bug.
The part of this bug that is valid is that the datestamps are wrong, and
as I mentioned above that will be fixed in OpenSSH 4.7p1.
Regards,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@debian.org]
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