Bug#1105036: openssh: please produce OpenSSH 10.x backports for Bookworm and Bullseye

[Martin-Éric Racine <martin-eric.racine@iki.fi>]

su 11.5.2025 klo 17.17 Colin Watson (cjwatson@debian.org) kirjoitti:
>
> On Sat, May 10, 2025 at 12:34:34PM +0300, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
> >Given how Trixie has raised the minimum CPU level for some
> >architectures (e.g. on i386, minimum Pentium 4 due to Rust now
> >requiring SSE2), it would be desirable for OpenSSH to be backported to
> >at least Bookworm, preferably also to Bullseye, so that hosts running
> >on deprecated CPUs can remain reachable using post-quantum crypto for
> >the remainder of their LTS support timespan.
>
> While I'm reasonably OK with doing this, backports rules mean that I
> need to wait until there's a suitable version in testing, and I'd much
> rather wait until at least version 1:10.0p1-3 is in testing since the
> current version in testing has an RC bug.

That seems reasonable enough. Looking forward to it.

> No promises about bullseye; it will depend on how the test suite looks
> there, and the rationale you give only really seems to apply to
> bookworm.

Understood. It's obviously a lower priority than for Bookworm.

Martin-Éric