[PATCH] Add scp -1 and -2 options to OpenSSH-3.0.2p1

[Wichert Akkerman]

(this is getting seriously offtopic, if anyone wants to continue this
discussion please do so in private mail)

Previously mouring wrote:
> Funny how Debian is in the minority for -1/-2.

That never stopped Debian from doing something. Being a minority or
not is one of the worst possibly reasons for doing something.

> BTW I have looked at a lot of those reports in the past.  Majority of
> the issues is because you people have taken it on yourself to set policy
> (add -1/-2, no v1 in default support, add :: to ListenAddress, etc).  

:: isn't added to ListenAddress at the moment I think, there are
some ipv4/ipv6 issues that break if you do that.

> The other group of them are extremely old (over a year plus) and most of them
> (from skimming) were fixed and I doubt we saw a single bug request from
> debian group.

Keep in mind that the Debian ssh package was pretty much unmaintained
for a long time and people are working on it now. Matthew has already
been active on this list for a while now, he just never mentioned
he is maintaining the Debian package now iirc.

> Oh, lets not forget the silly ones like "sftp-server should be in /usr/lib"
> persons' reasoning?  "Because it is only useful to sshd"... BAH!  WHY
> the *HELL* would one put EXCUTABLES in /usr/lib?  WHEN did sftp-server,
> ssh-askpass-gnome, etc become librariees?!

That is a completely different argument. We happen to like to have a
standard for things in the Linux world, and the relevant standard in
this case is FHS. You don't have to agree with it, but having a
standard is a good thing.

> Do you start to see my point?  HAVE you read them?  There are some pretty 
> stupid/uninformed requests.

I did look through them before handing out the URL. And yes, a lot of
them are silly and should be closed, but as I said earlier unfortunately
the Debian ssh package wasn't maintained for a while and a lot of cruft
piled up in that list.

> BTW.. I don't see -1/-2 request.

So it was never filed as a bugreport, doesn't change much.

Wichert.

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