Bug#436052: openssh-client: Option to not complain and exit on unknown config options

[Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org>]

Package: openssh-client
Version: 1:4.6p1-5
Severity: wishlist

I manage (part of) my home directory with the Git version control system, and
share it across machines.  One machine I want to use this home directory on
runs Debian Sarge, with an old OpenSSH, which complains about unknown options
in my .ssh/config (ControlPath and HashKnownHosts) and exits.  While obviously
the version of OpenSSH in Debian Sarge will never work with this
configuration, could future versions of OpenSSH offer some way to not complain
and exit when encountering unknown config options?

Thanks,
Josh Triplett

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-rc1 (PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages openssh-client depends on:
ii  adduser               3.104              add and remove users and groups
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.14             Debian configuration management sy
ii  dpkg                  1.14.5             package maintenance system for Deb
ii  libc6                 2.6-5              GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcomerr2            1.40.2-1           common error description library
ii  libedit2              2.9.cvs.20050518-3 BSD editline and history libraries
ii  libkrb53              1.6.dfsg.1-6       MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
ii  libncurses5           5.6+20070716-1     Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libssl0.9.8           0.9.8e-5           SSL shared libraries
ii  passwd                1:4.0.18.1-11      change and administer password and
ii  zlib1g                1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-5   compression library - runtime

openssh-client recommends no packages.

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