Re: [PATCH] RelNotes: mention known crasher when ssh signing with OpenSSH 8.7

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"brian m. carlson" <sandals@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On 2021-11-11 at 09:16:52, Jeff King wrote:
>> On Wed, Nov 10, 2021 at 02:11:29PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>>  ....
>> > + * In addition to GnuPG, ssh public crypto can be used for object and
>> > +   push-cert signing.  Note that this feature cannot be used with
>> > +   ssh-keygen from OpenSSH 8.7, whose support for it is broken.  Avoid
>> > +   using it unless you update to OpenSSH 8.8.
>> 
>> Attaching to the existing gpg-ssh release note like this makes perfect
>> sense to me. Thanks for tying this one up.
>
> Since this now affects running the testsuite on Debian unstable, we
> probably need to also fix the testsuite such that the GPGSSH
> prerequisite fails if we're using OpenSSH 8.7 so that developers and
> distros aren't negatively affected.

Yes, I think YYtgD8VT/0vuIHRX@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx is a good
thing to have, which is ca7a5bf4 (t/lib-gpg: avoid broken versions
of ssh-keygen, 2021-11-10) that was merged a few days ago.

Thanks for being extra careful.






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