Call for testing: OpenSSH 10.0

[Colin Watson]

On Wed, Apr 02, 2025 at 09:19:37AM +1100, Darren Tucker wrote:
> * This release has the version number 10.0 and announces itself
>   as "SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_10.0". Software that naively matches
>   versions using patterns like "OpenSSH_1*" may be confused by
>   this.

While this won't be a problem for a long time, I note that OpenSSH's own 
compat.c has:

                 { "OpenSSH_2*,"
                   "OpenSSH_3*,"
                   "OpenSSH_4*",         SSH_BUG_SIGTYPE },
                 { "OpenSSH_5*",         SSH_NEW_OPENSSH|SSH_BUG_DYNAMIC_RPORT|
                                         SSH_BUG_SIGTYPE},

Should these be changed to 2.* etc. to avoid future problems?

(Incidentally, unless I've misunderstood OpenSSH's historical versioning 
arrangements, I don't think that either the "OpenSSH_2*" or "OpenSSH_3*" 
patterns there can ever legitimately match, because there are previous 
"OpenSSH_2.*" and "OpenSSH_3.*" patterns that will always match first.)

-- 
Colin Watson (he/him)                              [cjwatson at debian.org]