Control: owner -1 ! I agree that this is a very long commit, but it makes only one change and it's pretty easy to follow the logic. It also offers an easy way to opt-out.
Thinking about SSH, in the real world, it's typically rare that the default host key checking behavior causes problems. I don't expect this situation would be an exception, but that assumes no bugs in the checks themselves. I don't believe removal is an option, but I've also never worked with a freeze exception. To ensure this gets resolved, I will commit to doing the needful. If anyone else has more experience and wants to coach or take over, please do. A bit of a side note, this patch is included in current unstable and I'm not aware of any new reproducible build failures. I will follow up on that statement, but it at least gives me some confidence we can prevent regressions in testing. -- Michael Lustfield