On Sat, Mar 01, 2008 at 10:35:51PM -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: >>>> No. But using ssh -v might give some clues. One extra potential >>>> reason: >>>> the target box does not have (the utility) xauth on it. >>> >>> >>> That was it. I did >>> aptitude install xauth >>> and everything was fine. >>> >>> It looks like the xterm package needs to depend on the xauth package -- >>> or at least recommend it. >>> >>> What package should a bug report for this go to? >> >> Please don't. xterm works perfectly ok without it. > > Well then, please suggest a better place to send the bug report? Or a > better description of the problem...
openssh-server and openssh-client already suggest xbase-client (which depends on xauth). IMHO this is the strongest link there should be between them, as I don't think xauth should be present "in all but the most unusual setups" (definition of a recommend). xterm should not even be discussed in this context as you can run ssh with any terminal in the archive. There was a discussion on debian-devel at one point to also provide a reason for 'suggests', something like: Suggests: xbase-clients (usually needed for X forwarding) Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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