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

[Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>]

On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 10:11:46AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> 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.
> 
> The patch would look like the attached (plus adjustments in some other
> patches on top of it).

Thank you very much for backporting this, and thanks to the release team
as well for approving it!

- Josh Triplett