Bug#693424: ssh: Please include HPN (high performance networking) patches for SSH

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

tags 693424 wontfix
thanks

On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 12:00:35PM +0100, Axel Beckert wrote:
> Please include the patches from
> http://www.psc.edu/networking/projects/hpn-ssh/ (without the "none"
> cipher patch, see http://bugs.debian.org/13389) in the openssh
> package.

Sorry, but I am not going to include any more large and invasive patch
sets in Debian's OpenSSH package, especially not ones that add new
configuration options (upstream has a history of giving such things
different names when they accept them, and then I'm stuck maintaining
configuration file compatibility forever).  This needs to go upstream.

> Maybe instead of including them in the default SSH binary packages, it
> could be an ideal to build separate hpn-ssh binary packages from the
> same source, so only those who explicitly want them also get them.

Absolutely not.  That way lies combinatorial explosion.

Thanks,

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson@debian.org]