On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 10:11:46AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 11:44:47PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > > Thank you for packaging 5.6, and thanks to upstream for the awesome > > ControlPersist support. > > > > I use the same home directory across many systems, some running stable, > > and some running unstable. This means I can't use any option in > > ~/.ssh/config that stable's ssh does not support, because that would > > break compatibility with the systems that run stable. Given the usual > > lifetime of a Debian stable release, it would help greatly if stable's > > ssh would either support ControlPersist, or at a minimum ignore it for > > compatibility. > > I can sympathise with this. I'd rather make it do something useful than > ignore it. However, since we're frozen, I'm CCing the release team for > their input. > > The patch would look like the attached (plus adjustments in some other > patches on top of it).
Thank you very much for backporting this, and thanks to the release team as well for approving it! - Josh Triplett -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100825152305.ga7...@feather
