Hi, Ben Finney: > On 16-Nov-2016, u wrote: >> Well, dput is supposed to work with SFTP simply by specifying >> "method = sftp" in any dput config file such as ~/.dput.cf. > > That has never been the case for the ‘dput’ package. > This bug is a request for a new feature that ‘dput’ doesn't yet have.
I see. >> Hence, my question actually is: why can't Debian's dput work with >> SFTP now? > > If you mean: why can't Dput do that now? The answer is: because the > feature is not yet implemented. > > If you mean: why not just add that feature the same way Ubuntu has > done? The answer is, because this feature and others are better > addressed by a differently designed API. I'm not keen to add more code > to the legacy API for that reason. Ack, thanks a lot for your answer. Cheers! u.
