Re: Heads-up: DSA key support being removed from OpenSSH

On Thu, 10 Apr 2025 at 19:21, Dr Jim Allen
<mail.lists@phinetworksystems.co.uk> wrote:
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> Two things.
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> a) Why remove the build config option?
> I know the code is being removed at some point, but until it is, why not
> leave it as a option (defaulted off)?

There's no user-facing interface to run upstream's configure script as
part of the FreeBSD build system, so enabling DSA in the FreeBSD base
system already required having a patched tree. Committing this removal
now has no user-facing impact, but means that we can separately decide
what to merge to stable branches: in particular, it is possible for us
to merge 10.0p2 to stable branches with DSA support still present.