ma 19.5.2025 klo 17.03 Colin Watson (cjwat...@debian.org) kirjoitti: > > On Mon, May 19, 2025 at 11:45:40AM +0300, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > >su 11.5.2025 klo 18.33 Martin-Éric Racine (martin-eric.rac...@iki.fi) > >kirjoitti: > >> su 11.5.2025 klo 17.17 Colin Watson (cjwat...@debian.org) kirjoitti: > >> > On Sat, May 10, 2025 at 12:34:34PM +0300, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > >> > >Given how Trixie has raised the minimum CPU level for some > >> > >architectures (e.g. on i386, minimum Pentium 4 due to Rust now > >> > >requiring SSE2), it would be desirable for OpenSSH to be backported to > >> > >at least Bookworm, preferably also to Bullseye, so that hosts running > >> > >on deprecated CPUs can remain reachable using post-quantum crypto for > >> > >the remainder of their LTS support timespan. > >> > > >> > While I'm reasonably OK with doing this, backports rules mean that I > >> > need to wait until there's a suitable version in testing, and I'd much > >> > rather wait until at least version 1:10.0p1-3 is in testing since the > >> > current version in testing has an RC bug. > >> > >> That seems reasonable enough. Looking forward to it. > > > >Can we return to this now that we have 1:10.0p1-5 in Testing? > > Thanks for the reminder. I've uploaded 1:10.0p1-5~bpo12+1 to > bookworm-backports.
Thanks! > I did try bullseye, but the regression test suite hung at "conch > ciphers: cipher aes256-ctr". That probably just needs reintroducing an > old patch to deal with older versions of Twisted, but this sort of thing > can get quite time-consuming and I'm reluctant to spend a lot of time on > it with weak justification. I propose to just do bookworm and call that > good enough; users of affected CPUs can at least upgrade to bookworm. Agreed. IIRC no architecture was dropped since Bullseye, so Bookworm should work for most people. Things only get more complicated starting with Trixie, with mips64le(?) dropped and i386 now requiring SSE2 so 786 (Pentium 4, Core, etc.) due to Rust, and no longer shipping any kernel. Martin-Éric
