Change add-on base for SSH add-on from Alpine to Debian

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I’m wondering whether it would be possible to change the base container image for the SSH add-on from Alpine to Debian. I ask this because I have successfully set up a remote SSH connection from a local VSCode instance to the SSH add-on, which works nearly perfectly, except that Alpine is not fully supported by the VSCode Remote - SSH extension due to limitations with the packaged musl / gcc libraries.

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I note that the VSCode Remote add-on is built on a Debian base, so doesn’t suffer from this issue, but the add-on has been archived, which I assume means I cannot rely on its ongoing support.

More detail about the Alpine limitation available here.

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I’ve also been looking for this. The SSH addon is built using on the base image, based on alpine. (And there is indeed another base-debian)

You can also try this hack to add the missing packages needed by vscode ssh remote extension