Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho <antti-juhani@kaijanaho.fi> (16/08/2012):
> There is no ambiguity. The package is present in unstable and thus is not
> "removed" in the sense that word is commonly used without qualifiers. (The
> proper way to describe what happened to the package is "removed from testing" -
> a release engineering action that doesn't imply any change in a package's
> maintainership.)

$ ssh release.debian.org dak ls libpam-ssh
libpam-ssh | 1.92-14 | stable | source, amd64, armel, i386, ia64, kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc

$ rmadison libpam-ssh
libpam-ssh | 1.92-14 | squeeze | source, amd64, armel, i386, ia64, kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc

$ wget http://ftp-master.debian.org/removals-2011.txt -q -O - | grep libpam-ssh -B 10 -A 1
------------------- Reason -------------------
ROM; unmaintained, somewhat obsolete
----------------------------------------------
Also closing bug(s): 381023 539727 610827 633152
Also closing WNPP bug(s):
================================================== =======================
================================================== =======================
[Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2011 16:51:17 +0000] [ftpmaster: Alexander Reichle-Schmehl]
Removed the following packages from unstable:

libpam-ssh | 1.92-14 | source
libpam-ssh | 1.92-14+b1 | amd64, armel, i386, ia64, kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc
Closed bugs: 650644

Mraw,
KiBi.

On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 05:41:08PM +0200, Alexander Wirt wrote:
> What let you think this?

Carelessness in investigating (looked at
http://packages.qa.debian.org/libp/libpam-ssh.html, noticed that the last news
entry was removal from testing and did not read closely enough to notice the
unstable removal notice below it - in retrospect, I should have expected such a
pattern, as removals from testing are often preceded by removals from
unstable).

Sorry for the noise.

(I do not need a personal CC, by the way. I am subscribed.)

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On 08/16/2012 11:42 PM, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 05:39:50PM +0200, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
>
>> According to its PTS ( http://packages.qa.debian.org/libp/libpam-ssh.html ):
>> [2011-12-03] libpam-ssh REMOVED from testing (Britney)
>> [2011-12-02] Removed 1.92-14 from unstable (Alexander Reichle-Schmehl)
>>
>> So I guess it must be considered as removed.
>>
> Yes, you are right. Sorry for my careless reading of that page.
>
> In any case, no ambiguity, it seems. I don't think a package's presence in
> stable or oldstable alone is a problem.
>
On my side, I got fooled by reading too fast:
http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=libpam-ssh&searchon=names&suite=all&section=all

The package is in SID, but only on few arch.

Which makes me wonder: WHY ? How does such things happen?
Is this because such ports aren't part of official Debian anymore?

Thomas


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On Jo, 16 aug 12, 07:40:52, Neil Williams wrote:
>
> Is this about using removable media to store the SSH private key to
> login to machines which only have the public key? That would be useful
> (but isn't that covered by existing PAM support?)

Well, by putting the SSH private key on a removable media one can get a
poor-man's version smart card, similar with libpam-rsa, but you get the
added benefit of having the key automatically added to the ssh-agent.

Kind regards,
Andrei
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