openssh bugs - Feb 2020 - [Bug 3128] New: Add option to show version of the executable (ssh-keygen)

https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3128

            Bug ID: 3128
           Summary: Add option to show version of the executable
                    (ssh-keygen)
           Product: Portable OpenSSH
           Version: 8.2p1
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P5
         Component: ssh-keygen
          Assignee: unassigned-bugs at mindrot.org
          Reporter: p.bodnar at centrum.cz

I'm not sure if this is specific only to the `ssh-keygen`, but there
seems no way of easily finding out its version from command line.
Instead, one needs to check the version of the whole OpenSSH package.

Is it possible to introduce an option like `-version` or `--version`
which would show the program's version (and possibly other information
as well)? Most users are used to have such an option for many command
line tools.

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https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3128

Damien Miller <djm at mindrot.org> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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                 CC|                            |djm at mindrot.org
             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|---                         |WONTFIX

--- Comment #1 from Damien Miller <djm at mindrot.org> ---
ssh -V is the canonical way to check the version of the installed
OpenSSH package. We do not intend to add options to do this to each
installed tool.

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