Hi! On Thu, Apr 15, 2021 at 12:50:13PM +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote: > Hi! Upstream is not maintained either -- at least the download URL in > netkit-telnet's debian/copyright file does not work. How about dropping > netkit-telnet from Debian? GNU InetUtils provides telnet+telnetd and > appears to be actively maintained both in Debian and upstream, and could > provide the packages going forward.
Considering how popular telent is, this is a migration that needs to be taken with care. I have no stake on netkit-telnet myself, and I honestly do not care as long as a working `telent` is available. But since this is the default `telnet` it needs to be properly evaluated. For sure any such takeover can only happen in a few months after bullseye is released. > Cc'ing Debian maintainer of inetutils too, do > you have any comments Guillem? Overall, with netkit-telnet orphaned, I think the final opinion rests on Guillem. If he believes this is the way forward, I encourage him to simply build a transitional package from src:inetutils. -- regards, Mattia Rizzolo GPG Key: 66AE 2B4A FCCF 3F52 DA18 4D18 4B04 3FCD B944 4540 .''`. More about me: https://mapreri.org : :' : Launchpad user: https://launchpad.net/~mapreri `. `'` Debian QA page: https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=mattia `-
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