Bug#319244: Apply upstream's improved LPK-patch substitution
On Thu, Sep 08, 2011 at 08:09:10PM +0200, Dora Paula wrote:
> The LPK-patch seems to be obsolete in the near future because a by
> far more flexible, powerfull and even smaller patch has been
> discussed upstream and already been published within upstream's
> bugzilla.
>
> Related upstream discussion can be accessed here:
> http://marc.info/?l=openssh-unix-dev&m=127617868901534&w=2
>
> The patch against 5.8p2 is published here:
> https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1663
>
> And last but not least:
> "This feature is included in last releases of Fedora and RHEL6
> products." (stated here:
> https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1663#c18)
>
> In my opinion the chances seem to be quite good that this patch (or
> at least its principle) will be integrated into upstream's release
> and there is no need for lpk in the future any more.
This is great news, but I would rather wait for that to actually happen;
at a minimum, for it to be committed to OpenSSH proper. As I said in
message #10 on this bug, I've had too many bad experiences with
integrating what looked like a perfectly reasonable patch into Debian
only to find that upstream changed its name when they committed it and
then I was stuck carrying a compatibility patch.
Once (or several times) bitten, twice shy.
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@debian.org]
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