Debian Bug report logs - #875979
openssh-client: Please ship /usr/bin/scp in its own binary package

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Message #5 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Guilhem Moulin <[email protected]>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[email protected]>

Subject: openssh-client: Please ship /usr/bin/scp in its own binary package

Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2017 21:00:46 +0200

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Package: openssh-client
Version: 1:7.5p1-10
Severity: wishlist

Hi there,

OpenSSH's scp(1) binary can be used in client mode in combination with
other SSH clients, or in sink mode in combination with another server.

/usr/bin/scp is only linked against libc6, but to install it along with
a more lightweight SSH server/client (Drobear for instance, cf. #495795)
one currently needs to install openssh-client, which pulls 10.3MiB in 8
dependencies on a clean sid chroot, hence can be a blocker on small or
embedded systems.

Please consider shipping /usr/bin/scp in its own binary package instead;
as per Colin's mail from [email protected] [0]:

>   Package: openssh-client
>   Depends: openssh-scp
>
>   Package: openssh-scp
>   Recommends: openssh-client | ssh-client
>   Breaks: openssh-client (<< first-version-without-scp)
>   Replaces: openssh-client (<< first-version-without-scp)


Thanks for maintainer OpenSSH in Debian!
-- 
Guilhem.

[0] https://lists.debian.org/debian-ssh/2017/07/msg00019.html

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