#4524: New package: ssh-askpass
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Reporter: fo | Owner: fo
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: current
Component: BOOK | Version: SVN
Severity: normal | Resolution:
Keywords: |
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Comment (by fo):
There are many packages with this name. No one is named like that by the
author. Debian uses the name for x11-ssh-askpass, last version is 1.2.4.1,
from 2001-Sep-17. Arch has openssh-askpass 2.0.0-2 to provide x11-ssh-
askpass, a program based on qt4, also depending on cmake and openssh. Arch
also ships x11-ssh-askpass-1.2.4.1.
The package I am considering in this ticket is what is named by Debian
ssh-askpass-gnome-6.4p1. It is distributed in the openssh tarball and the
c-file dates from 2009, which I believe was the reason for choosing it
personaly.
Although x11-ssh-askpass-1.2.4.1 uses only xorg-libs (libxt) and the one I
am considering depends also on gtk+2 (and glib, but in BLFS, gtk+2 has it
in the dependency chain).
Considering all above, my plan is to call the package ssh-askpass-6.4p1,
keeping the version convention as in Debian (same as OpenSSH), but
withdrawing the gnome from the name, which could make "non-gnome" users
possibly avoid it even before checking the dependencies. Also, I know the
name I use is recognized by all packages involved.
The installation instructions I use are very different from debian. I
would like to keep them as I use, because have no doubt it works.
I will wait until tomorrow, before starting to edit the page. Perhaps
tomorrow or the day after, I would, then, commit.
With this, I hope, any objection can be made before, or in the days
following the inclusion of the page in the book, so it could be easily
reverted, hopefully avoiding future problems.
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