Dear OpenSSH maintainers,
/usr/bin/scp — used both client and server side — is currently provided
by the openssh-client package. I'm currently maintaining dropbear,
which happens to also provide scp; it's currently not included in our
packages, but users have repeatedly requested it [0] and I'm wondering
what would be the best way to provide it.
Quoting myself from bug #495795 msg #25,
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I believe the options at hands are:
* ask the OpenSSH maintainers to consider using an alternative for
their scp binary (and possibly ssh too), or
* provide a new package dropbear-client to ship /usr/bin/{dbclient,scp}
and make it conflict with openssh-client.
Any thoughts or suggestions?
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I'm currently leaning towards the second solution, but would be great to
have your opinion on that :-)
Thanks for maintaining OpenSSH in Debian!
Cheers,
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Guilhem.
[0] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=495795
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