Nicolas, thanks, but I'm not sure that really addresses the bug. Even after this it will still be the case that ssh -X will fail confusingly if xauth is not installed.
A dependency would definitely not be appropriate - it needs a warning message. -- ssh -X fails without warning when xauth not installed https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/51774 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs