Bug#1023760: openssh-client: scp should not be provided as an alternative to rcp

[Jesse Hathaway <jesse@mbuki-mvuki.org>]

Package: openssh-client
Version: 1:9.0p1-1+b2
Severity: minor
X-Debbugs-Cc: jesse@mbuki-mvuki.org

Dear Maintainer,

I needed to rcp a file to a legacy system, to my surprise it at first
appeared that rcp was installed, but my invocation failed. After some
investigation I found that scp was symlinked as an alternative to rcp.
>From reading the manpage I was unable to discern a way to have scp
perform a classic rcp transfer. If scp cannot perform an rcp transfer,
should it be symlinked to /etc/alternatives/rcp?

-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.0.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages openssh-client depends on:
ii  adduser           3.129
ii  dpkg              1.21.9+b1
ii  libc6             2.36-4
ii  libedit2          3.1-20221030-1
ii  libfido2-1        1.12.0-1
ii  libgssapi-krb5-2  1.20-1+b1
ii  libselinux1       3.4-1+b2
ii  libssl3           3.0.7-1
ii  passwd            1:4.12.3+dfsg1-3
ii  zlib1g            1:1.2.13.dfsg-1

Versions of packages openssh-client recommends:
ii  xauth  1:1.1.1-1

Versions of packages openssh-client suggests:
pn  keychain      <none>
pn  libpam-ssh    <none>
pn  monkeysphere  <none>
pn  ssh-askpass   <none>

-- no debconf information