Bug#797964: still happens
severity 797964 important
thanks
On Monday, 5 June 2017 10:50:00 AM AEST Christoph Biedl wrote:
> > On Mon, 4 Apr 2016 07:33:18 PM Russell Coker wrote:
> > > This still happens exactly as reported in version 1:7.2p2-2.
> >
> > I've attached a 1 line patch to fix this. Here is the output of using ssh
> > to transfer 1MB of /dev/urandom from a remote system to a local system
> > with the
> > version in Unstable:
> What the status on this? People out there run statistics on that output,
> and I'm not at all keen on providing them a patched openssh-client
> package over the entire stretch lifecycle. Especially since Russell's
> patch is extremely simple and certainly does the right things. I did a
> few more tests that confirm this.
I believe that this is an important issue. It has a significant effect on the
usability of the package for people who track data transfers and the ratio of
significance to effort to fix is large.
If the decision is made to not include it for Stretch (which is at a late
stage now) I think it should be included in a Stretch update.
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