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Package: inetutils-telnet
Severity: wishlist
As discussed in https://bugs.debian.org/982253 netkit-telnet is not
(actively) maintained upstream or in Debian. Inetutils may not be the
state of the art as a well-maintained project, but at least there are
upstream releases and good packaging in Debian.
I believe 'apt-get install telnet' should install inetutils-telnet
rather than netkit-telnet going forward. Once bullseye is released it
is a good time to make the switch. I'm opening this bug to find out
what needs to be done in order to make this happen, if there is
agreement that this is a good idea.
1) What needs to be done in d/control for the inetutils-telnet package?
Should it 'Provides: telnet' and 'Replaces: telnet'? Anything more?
2) Is it required for 1) that the netkit-telnet package is removed from
Debian? Maybe the package could live on and ship 'netkit-telnet'
instead of the 'telnet' package? Perhaps that package could continue to
live on in unstable, but never ship with a future release in favor of
inetutils-telnet.
3) The implementations needs to be analyzed for compatibility. The
--usage outputs are like this:
Usage: telnet.netkit [-4] [-6] [-8] [-E] [-L] [-a] [-d] [-e char] [-l user]
[-n tracefile] [ -b addr ] [-r] [host-name [port]]
Usage: inetutils-telnet [-468acdEKLrx?V] [-e CHAR] [-l USER] [-n FILE]
[-k REALM] [-X ATYPE] [--ipv4] [--ipv6] [--binary] [--login]
[--no-rc] [--debug] [--escape=CHAR] [--no-escape] [--no-login]
[--user=USER] [--binary-output] [--trace=FILE] [--rlogin]
[--encrypt] [--realm=REALM] [--disable-auth=ATYPE] [--help]
[--usage] [--version] [HOST [PORT]]
A quick comparison indicates that inetutils-telnet is missing the '-b
addr' command. I'll try to verify that the parameter actually does the
intended thing in netkit-telnet, and then see if I can implement that
upstream in inetutils.
Further feature comparisons would be welcome though.
4) The man page for inetutils-telnet is less useful than the
netkit-telnet man page. I think this could be improved upstream in
inetutils, and will work on that.
Similar thoughts applies to inetutils-telnetd vs netkit-telnetd too, but
I wanted to start with something simple so I chose inetutils-telnet.
Since telnet and telnetd is shipped from the same netkit-telnet source
package, it may that if 2) is involved above, something needs to happen
to inetutils-telnetd too, and then so be it.
Thoughts?
/Simon
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Source: inetutils
Source-Version: 2:2.3-2
Done: Guillem Jover <[email protected]>
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
inetutils, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
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Guillem Jover <[email protected]> (supplier of updated inetutils package)
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Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2022 13:18:23 +0200
Source: inetutils
Architecture: source
Version: 2:2.3-2
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Guillem Jover <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Guillem Jover <[email protected]>
Closes: 987729
Changes:
inetutils (2:2.3-2) unstable; urgency=medium
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* Bump inetutils-telnet alternatives priority from 100 to 150, to take
precedence over the netkit-telnet implementation, as we are now the
default and preferred implementation in Debian.
* Remove unnecessary -a restriction for debhelper commands.
* Make inetutils-telnet and inetutils-telnetd the default implementations in
Debian (Closes: #987729):
- Bump inetutils-telnet Priority to standard.
- Add telnet to inetutils-telnet Provides.
- Add telnetd to inetutils-telnetd Provides.
- Add a versioned telnetd Breaks to inetutils-telnetd.
- Add a telnet transitional dummy package that depends on
inetutils-telnet and removes the netkit-telnet alternative on preinst.
- Add a telnetd transitional dummy package that depends on
inetutils-telnetd and removes the netkit-telnetd inetd entry on preinst.
- Set the telnet and telnetd binary package versions to
0.17+$(DEB_VERSION_UPSTREAM_REVISION), to avoid introducing an epoch and
leave room for a possible revert, even though the plan is to get rid of
these packages after Debian's bookworm release.
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