On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 09:11:15PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Sebastian Pipping <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Colin Watson wrote: > >> I'm not keen. We only recently got rid of openssh-krb5, I have headaches > >> enough keeping the Kerberos patch up to date although the upstream for > >> that is excellent, and I don't want to increase my workload further by > >> including more third-party patches. The more of these I include, the > >> longer it takes to get new upstream releases packaged. > > > > could you (or matthew) sponsor me if i did the work? > > Speaking as one of the former maintainers of openssh-krb5 (for a brief > period near the end of its life), I don't think this is a great idea. > Maintaining a separate forked copy of the ssh code base in another package > is painful from a security standpoint, and managing the shared > configuration and conflicts and whatnot can be rather horrific.
I have to say that I'm with Russ on this point. openssh 4.7p1-1 is on its way into Debian unstable now. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
