OpenSSH 5.0 released [LWN.net]

OpenSSH 5.0 released

Posted Apr 7, 2008 12:06 UTC (Mon) by djm (subscriber, #11651)
In reply to: OpenSSH 5.0 released by dwmw2
Parent article: OpenSSH 5.0 released

Your commentary is quite misleading: of the three patches you list, only one is a bug (and is
arguably not) - the other two are enhancements. One of these (multiple X11 forwarding) is not
supported by the SSH protocol without hacks, and I have given you quite a reasoned explanation
why we aren't pursuing your approach - that is not unresponsiveness, just a disagreement over
what features should live in the product.

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OpenSSH 5.0 released

Posted Apr 7, 2008 12:14 UTC (Mon) by djm (subscriber, #11651) [Link]

I should add that most (all?) of the _bugs_ filed by the Redhat maintainer (Thomas Mraz)
against OpenSSH are closed, mostly because he writes great bug reports and makes his patches
very easy to merge. He is probably the easiest distribution representative to deal with.

OpenSSH 5.0 released

Posted Apr 7, 2008 14:16 UTC (Mon) by dwmw2 (subscriber, #2063) [Link]

I'm sorry; I didn't mean to mislead. I did say "bugs/RFEs", and it was just an example.

Personally, I count the first two as bugs and only the last as an RFE — I do consider the forwarding of X clients to the "wrong" display to be a bug rather than a missing feature, and it isn't so much of a hack to use our own locally-generated MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE to differentiate between clients. I thought your objection was mostly that we have a similar bug with agent forwarding which is harder to fix, and that fixing one but not the other would be inconsistent, even though the agent forwarding bug is much less often an issue (in my experience, never). But this probably isn't the correct forum for that discussion.

I could perhaps have also included bug #1349, but I haven't been carrying that patch in my builds for so long.

Anyway, those are just in my personal builds. The important thing is that we get everything from the distribution(s) properly considered for merging upstream. There are too many patches outstanding for my liking, for whatever reasons.