Bug#734386: /usr/bin/scp: Hosts from .ssh/config recognized on source or target but not both

[Shai Berger <shai@platonix.com>]

Package: openssh-client
Version: 1:6.4p1-2
Severity: normal
File: /usr/bin/scp

Dear Maintainer,

In ~/.ssh/config you can define a list of host names, each mapped
to a real host and including options (such as user name, key file,
etc.). Such hosts can be used by scp as source or target hosts, but
trying to use them at both ends is likely to lead to "host not found"
errors, because scp essentially tries to resolve the second host
from the first host rather than the user's machine.

This is inconsistent and surprising.

#222992 (closed wontfix upstream) is probably related, but the
reasons for the closing do not apply here AFAICT.

Thanks,
	Shai.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.11-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages openssh-client depends on:
ii  adduser           3.113+nmu3
ii  dpkg              1.17.5
ii  libc6             2.17-97
ii  libedit2          3.1-20130712-2
ii  libgssapi-krb5-2  1.11.3+dfsg-3+nmu1
ii  libselinux1       2.2.1-1
ii  libssl1.0.0       1.0.1e-6
ii  passwd            1:4.1.5.1-1
ii  zlib1g            1:1.2.8.dfsg-1

Versions of packages openssh-client recommends:
ii  xauth  1:1.0.7-1

Versions of packages openssh-client suggests:
pn  keychain                 <none>
pn  libpam-ssh               <none>
pn  monkeysphere             <none>
ii  openssh-blacklist        0.4.1+nmu1
ii  openssh-blacklist-extra  0.4.1+nmu1
pn  ssh-askpass              <none>

-- no debconf information