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Date:      Thu, 9 Aug 2001 07:41:53 +0200
From:      Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
To:        "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>, Alexander Langer <alex@big.endian.de>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Can we please remove "green@FreeBSD.org" from the version string?
Message-ID:  <20010809074153.A8555@freebie.xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <200108090308.f7938Mj63195@green.bikeshed.org>; from green@FreeBSD.ORG on Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 11:08:21PM -0400
References:  <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> <200108090308.f7938Mj63195@green.bikeshed.org>

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On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 11:08:21PM -0400, Brian F. Feldman wrote:
> Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 09:01:36AM -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
> > > On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 04:51:55PM +0200, Alexander Langer wrote:
> > > > Thus spake David O'Brien (obrien@FreeBSD.ORG):
> > > > 
> > > > Looking at the first two lines, shouldn't it be
> > > > 
> > > > >  #define SSH_VERSION		(ssh_version_get())
> > > > >  #define SSH_VERSION_BASE	"OpenSSH_2.9"
> > > > > -#define	SSH_VERSION_ADDENDUM	"green@FreeBSD.org 20010608"
> > > > > +#define SSH_VERSION_ADDENDUM	"FreeBSD 20010608"
> > > > 
> > > > anyways? :-)
> > > 
> > > *sigh*  Can we please comment on the content?
> > 
> > Sounds like a good idea to change this.
> 
> Seeing as it's directed people to the right maintainer because of it, so 
> far...  It's not "portable" OpenSSH, and it's not "OpenSSH running on 
> FreeBSD", so either we need to have a completely new name for it (FreeBSDSSH 
> or something), or something that is otherwise descriptive to differentiate 
> it.  It's far removed from being "plain" OpenSSH or "portable" OpenSSH.

Using the same logic we could e.g. gcc --version report 
'gcc version blah obrien@freebsd.org'. Not a good idea. People are supposed
to send-pr a bug to FreeBSD.org and then it is the projects internal
process^Wproblem to assign this PR to the appropriate maintainer(s).

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