Bug#693424: ssh: Please include HPN (high performance networking) patches for SSH
Control: tag -1 + upstream
Hi Colin,
thanks for the prompt reply and the explanations!
Colin Watson wrote:
> 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
Ok.
> (upstream has a history of giving such things different names when
> they accept them,
Hehe.
> and then I'm stuck maintaining configuration file compatibility
> forever).
Good point!
> This needs to go upstream.
Tagged it accordingly.
> > 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.
Yeah, I know. And it's sometimes hard to find the right balance
between different demands and to many versions.
Regards, Axel
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