GNU finger was decommisioned several years ago when the maintainer went AWOL. There is a note in the entry that it would be integrated into inetutils.
But so far as I can tell, this hasn't happended. Inetutils maintaers: Do you have any plans for this? J' On Sat, Jul 06, 2019 at 07:59:36PM -0400, Richard Stallman wrote: > [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] > [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] > [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > What's the situation with this? > > > One entry in that list which suprised me was "finger". When I looked, > > in our records however, it seems that we used to have such a package, > > but it was decommisioned in 2008 with a note saying that it would > > be rolled into inetutils. But inetutils hasn't done anything about > > it so far as I can tell. > > ISTR it was established that our finger program is really obsolete. > Is there any error about finger in GNU project records and statements? > > -- > Dr Richard Stallman > President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) > Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org) >
