Les Mikesell wrote:
Ralph Angenendt wrote:
- What does our upstream think about this?
- What do the OpenSSH developers think about this?
Someone is going to need to ask those questions of the people...
I don't think the OpenSSH devels really do care about that - there is no discussion whatsoever on the secureshell list or on the devel list.
No idea about our upstream, but I don't think so either.
Does anyone know the point of the patch in the first place? That is, why would a distro-specific modification have been needed at all? I don't suspect an intentional compromise here but I'm curious about why anyone would consider a non-standard change.
The change was added due to valgrind testing of openssh and warnings produced while compiling.
The removal was discussed on the openssh-devel list.
If was clearly an accident caused by trying to do the right thing.