Re: Debian openssh option review: considering splitting out GSS-API key exchange

Colin Watson <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.ssh,gmane.linux.debian.devel.general
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
On Wed, Apr 03, 2024 at 04:01:34PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote:
> To speed things up for those who really want it, perhaps make
> openssh-client/server dependency-only packages on
> openssh-client/server-nogss? People can choose the less-compatible version
> for this release if they want to, and the default can change next release.
> Pushing back the ability to install the unpatched version for a few more
> years seems suboptimal.

I worry about churn, and about inviting more bugs to do with moving an
awkward combination of conffiles and non-conffile configuration files
between packages.  But maybe.
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