Source: libnet-openssh-perl Section: perl Priority: optional Maintainer: Debian Perl Group Uploaders: Florian Schlichting Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9) Build-Depends-Indep: perl Standards-Version: 3.9.8 Vcs-Browser: https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-perl/packages/libnet-openssh-perl.git Vcs-Git: https://anonscm.debian.org/git/pkg-perl/packages/libnet-openssh-perl.git Homepage: https://metacpan.org/release/Net-OpenSSH Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-perl Package: libnet-openssh-perl Architecture: all Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${perl:Depends}, openssh-client Suggests: libio-pty-perl, libnet-openssh-gateway-perl, libnet-sftp-foreign-perl Description: Perl SSH client package implemented on top of OpenSSH Net::OpenSSH is a secure shell client package implemented on top of the OpenSSH binary client (ssh), leveraging the multiplexing feature found in current versions of OpenSSH. That is, when a new Net::OpenSSH object is created, ssh is run in master mode establishing a permanent connection. Then, every time a new operation is requested, a new ssh process is started in slave mode, reusing the master SSH connection to send the request to the remote side. This makes Net::OpenSSH very fast, as most of the latency of ssh is intrinsic to the protocol. . If you like the API of other Perl SSH distributions like Net::SSH, Net::SSH2 or Net::SSH::Perl, and would like to use them with Net::OpenSSH, have a look at the libnet-openssh-compat-perl package.