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Bug#949626: busybox-static: Please include less and ftpput in busybox-udeb



On Wed, 22 Jan 2020 at 22:03, Philipp Kern <pkern@debian.org> wrote:
> > Please include functional less, just like in busybox-static with the same
> > build options.
>
> There is nano though. (I'd still second less. I think we can spare the
> space.)

~17kB from my estimates and looking at build logs.

> > ftpput to transfer files out would good option too.
>
> The age of FTP has long passed.

You think you can fit the scp or ssh then? :D I doubt so.

In the lack of ftpput, one would still use netcat / nc,
which is actually available in busybox-nc to accomplish
the same task, just in more convoluted way.

Regards,
Witold


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