Bug#699473: openssh-server has overly restrictive dependency on exact openssh-client version
On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 01:51:08PM -0500, Brian Szymański wrote:
> After building a newer version of openssh-client from source, I noticed
> that openssh-server requires an exact version of openssh-client. Surely,
> this can be replaced with a >= dependency?
Maybe. Wouldn't it be kind of weird if you upgraded just openssh-client
and now /usr/share/doc/openssh-server/changelog.Debian.gz claimed a
newer version, though? (To avoid wasting space,
/usr/share/doc/openssh-server is a symlink to openssh-client.)
I'm not implacably opposed to changing this, but since it would cause
slight oddities like this I'd need a reason. What practical problem is
this causing?
Cheers,
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@debian.org]
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