Re: ssh refuses to install (potato)
On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 08:35:34AM -0700, nate wrote:
> Robert L. Harris said:
> > This looks like a bug in the install scripts within the .deb. Did
> > anything else fail as well? Mine upgraded fine but I'm on woody not
> > potato. See if dpkg upgraded (it may use -t). If not then just hang on
> > a day or so, the maintainer will hopefully fix it (my experience is they
> > fix em very quickly) or the maintainer or the broken dependancy needs to
> > have something pushed to potato.
>
> I wouldn't get your hopes up if its a bug in the potato version.
It's not really. Local ssh-keygens are a reasonably frequent problem,
and lots of people seem to forget to take them out of their $PATH.
However, local versions of programs in $PATH should be honoured, since
sysadmins should be able to override package-installed programs if they
so choose - it's just that on their own head be it.
> Shortly after Woody was released I got 2 emails from the bug tracking
> system saying that the SSH package manager closed the 2 bugs I had
> open (along with a TON of others), because woody was released. The
> package manager seems not to have any interest in supporting potato
> anymore.
Do you blame him? The version of ssh in potato was basically a hideous
pile of buggy crap in lots of ways, and the maintainer *cannot* update
it for anything other than security updates: the upload simply won't be
accepted. Let the old bugs die. How long security support for potato
continues is pretty much unrelated to whether maintainers choose to
close old bugs that are now obsolete.
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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