Bug#131090: marked as done (scp: please enable -f option to fork to background)

On Tue, Jun 02, 2026 at 10:05:56AM +0000, [email protected] wrote:
>Am 02.06.2026 11:43 schrieb Colin Watson:
>>you aren't the package maintainer and you didn't consult with the 
>>package
>>maintainer.
>
>Please don't throw the maintainer argument at me. There was no 
>response for 24 years in this issue. So it seems to me that there is 
>no active maintainer

Oh come on, this is just a bad-faith argument.  If you look at 
https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/openssh for more than two seconds it's 
pretty obvious that I'm active.  It doesn't follow that I have time to 
address every single bug; I am human and have finite time, which I have 
to prioritize.

Having to spend time on this kind of argument doesn't help.

>or the maintainer does not care. But I care and 
>focusing especially on the oldest and inactive tickets in Debian. I am 
>handling in the interest of the Debian GNU/Linux project, working 
>against its long year image that it is old, outdated and inactive. 
>Keeping tickets open of that age without a good reason doesn't help.

All you needed to do was ask first.

Finding bugs that have actually been fixed (e.g. #166638 recently) _is_ 
helpful, though, and I appreciate that.