[DRE-maint] Bug#1008541: vagrant: Cant create boxes running ssh 8.8

[Lucas Nussbaum]

On 28/03/22 at 16:54 +0200, Arnaud Patard wrote:
> Package: vagrant
> Severity: normal
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> 
> It's not possible to start a VM on bullseye with this Vagrantfile:
> 
> Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
>   config.vm.box = "generic/alpine315"
> end
> 
> It's stuck while trying the use SSH. generic/alpine310 is fine for instance.
> After debugging, it turns out that it's due to ssh 8.8 running inside the guest.
> 
> It has been:
> - fixed in ruby net-ssh:
>   https://github.com/net-ssh/net-ssh/commit/a45f54fe1de434605af0b7195dd9a91bccd2cec5
> - workarounded in vagrant with lib/vagrant/patches/net-ssh.rb
> 
> Doing a quick&dirty backport of sid vagrant seems to fix the issue.
> 
> I'm not sure which package should be fixed (rubygem-net-ssh or vagrant)
> so bugging against vagrant since it's this package not working.
> 
> Thanks,
> Arnaud

Hi,

This is #1009155 in ruby-net-ssh. I plan to backport the package to
bullseye-backports once the fixed ruby-net-ssh package is accepted in
testing.

However, I don't know if we want to consider "use ruby-net-ssh from
backports" a sufficient solution for this issue.

Lucas