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Bug#489272: marked as done (openssh-client: man should say how to copy a file name with a colon)

Your message dated Mon, 4 Jan 2010 11:14:25 +0000
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has caused the Debian Bug report #489272,
regarding openssh-client: man should say how to copy a file name with a colon
to be marked as done.

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Package: openssh-client
Version: 1:4.7p1-12
Severity: minor

In /usr/share/doc/openssh-client/faq.html I read that, in order to copy
a file with a colon in the file name, one needs to use an absolute file
name, like this:

$ scp ./source:file sshserver:

However, I argue that this should be present in the man page, not only
in a faq.  The reason is that it is part of the specification of how the
program works, and cannot be deduced from any other documentation
contained in the man page.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'testing-proposed-updates')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=it_IT@euro (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages openssh-client depends on:
ii  adduser               3.108              add and remove users and groups
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.22             Debian configuration management sy
ii  dpkg                  1.14.20            Debian package management system
ii  libc6                 2.7-10             GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcomerr2            1.40.8-2           common error description library
ii  libedit2              2.11~20080614-1    BSD editline and history libraries
ii  libkrb53              1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-3 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
ii  libncurses5           5.6+20080308-1     Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libssl0.9.8           0.9.8g-10.1        SSL shared libraries
ii  passwd                1:4.1.1-2          change and administer password and
ii  zlib1g                1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12  compression library - runtime

Versions of packages openssh-client recommends:
ii  openssh-blacklist             0.4.1      list of default blacklisted OpenSS
ii  openssh-blacklist-extra       0.4.1      list of non-default blacklisted Op
ii  xauth                         1:1.0.3-2  X authentication utility

-- no debconf information

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--- Begin Message --- 
Source: openssh
Source-Version: 1:5.1p1-1

On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 05:50:12PM +0200, Francesco Potorti` wrote:
> Package: openssh-client
> Version: 1:4.7p1-12
> Severity: minor
> 
> In /usr/share/doc/openssh-client/faq.html I read that, in order to copy
> a file with a colon in the file name, one needs to use an absolute file
> name, like this:
> 
> $ scp ./source:file sshserver:
> 
> However, I argue that this should be present in the man page, not only
> in a faq.  The reason is that it is part of the specification of how the
> program works, and cannot be deduced from any other documentation
> contained in the man page.

Thanks. This was fixed in OpenSSH 4.9:

  http://bzr.debian.org/loggerhead/pkg-ssh/openssh/trunk/revision/2659.11.99

-- 
Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson@debian.org]

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