Comment 13 for bug 16918

Message-ID: <email address hidden>
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 18:56:47 +0000
From: Colin Watson <email address hidden>
To: Alessandro Razeto <email address hidden>, <email address hidden>
Cc: <email address hidden>, <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#240077: ssh: why not to compile with opensc?

tags 240077 - experimental sid
merge 231472 240077
thanks

On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 07:02:41PM +0100, Alessandro Razeto wrote:
> Package: ssh
> Version: 1:3.8p1-2
> Severity: wishlist
> Tags: experimental sid
>
> I think it could be usefull to compile ssh with opensc support, which
> is already included in the source files.
> One need only to add to debian/rules the --opensc=/usr directive to
> configure and add the source dependancy to libopensc0-dev.

Wouldn't that produce a binary package that depends on libopensc0,
thereby requiring everyone with ssh to install that library? It would
have to be a separate package, and I have concerns about the
maintainability of that approach.

Please search for existing bugs before filing new ones, by the way;
searching for "opensc" in ssh's bug page immediately finds #231472.

Cheers,

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Colin Watson [<email address hidden>]