[Piskvorrr]

So, this essentially boils down to "someone else, ANYONE not me, should simplify the bureaucratic process for me (because there's the actual issue), and I've picked OpenSSH maintainers for the job. Oh, and for free, too."

You're not expecting the toolchain to appear out of thin ether, that was my misunderstanding: you fully expect volunteers to provide you with it for free, for your highly specific situation; in return, you offer...nothing? That's not a very enticing trade.

I sense there may be other ways around this, but those would a) cost you (in a broad sense; after all, the infrastructure is supposedly critical) money, and/or b) cost you (perhaps in a stricter sense) time, effort, perhaps influence. I agree that's rather inconvenient, given the alternative.

[anonymousiam]

Personally, I'm able to do what is needed to make things work. My whole point was that by pushing the work from the OpenSSH dev team to downstream, the sum total of work will increase.