[ITP] libssh2

Christopher Faylor cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com
Thu Jun 28 11:29:00 GMT 2007


On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 08:23:30AM +0200, Frank Fesevur wrote:
> At 28-6-2007 4:31, Brian Dessent wrote:
>> I have been meaning up update the curl packages to 7.16.x for a while,
>> however, I have held off because a new feature in curl is support for
>> transfers over ssh (scp:// and sftp:// URLs.)  However this support
>> requires a recent libssh2, and until recently there had not been a
>> release of this library in a while so that meant using a CVS version.
>> libssh2 0.15 was finally released a couple of days ago, so I'd like to
>> package it, then I can release updated curl/libcurl versions that use
>> it.
>> The project is relatively new as far as I know and not in any stable
>> distro (but I haven't checked exhaustively), so it will likely need 5
>> votes.
>
> But, do you still need 5 votes if you need it for a new release of an 
> existing package?

I can't parse that sentence.  I think the answer is no, though.

> Otherwise +1 for me.

You're not a package maintainer are you?

cgf



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