On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 10:20:49AM +0100, Salvador Fandino wrote: > This package includes "plink" that is a full feature command line SSH client.
I think adding such a Provides would cause problems. plink does not provide a particularly OpenSSH-compatible interface - if nothing else, it does not provide /usr/bin/ssh! - and various other packages depend on ssh-client with the apparent intention of using such an interface. Surely, at minimum, plink would need to install an alternative for /usr/bin/ssh, and openssh-client would need to be changed to do the same, before we could make this change. Doing that would in turn require us to define some reasonable minimal subset of the command-line interface that other packages could rely on. I'm not sure that all of this isn't more trouble than it's worth; it seems as if it would create a lot of complexity and fragility for very little gain. Do you have a concrete reason for needing this? Thanks, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
