Bug#1100948: dropbear 2025.87 changes break OpenSSH's regression test suite

Colin Watson <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.ssh
Message-ID <Z9yg74e3ZDJl7rLU__45735.4144704127$1742512537$gmane$org@riva.ucam.org>
On Thu, Mar 20, 2025 at 09:09:34PM +0100, Guilhem Moulin wrote:
>Since 2025.87-1 dropbear(8) and dbclient(1) are now built without
>support for the ‘hmac-sha1’ integrity algorithm, ‘ssh-rsa’ key
>algorithm, and ‘diffie-hellman-group14-sha1’ key exchange algorithm.
>
>That change broke OpenSSH's regression test suite (regress/dropbear-*.sh),
>hence its autopkgtests.  OpenSSH upstream has a patch available at:
>
>    https://github.com/openssh/openssh-portable/commit/97e10c0005a784622c61cb4e8bb7858b410bbcc6
>
>Indeed, applying this change fixes OpenSSH's autopkgtest.
>
>I (dropbear maintainer) didn't foresee breakage in other packages,
>apologies for that.

Thanks for the heads-up.  I'll get that into unstable.
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