Re: ITP: lukemftp

[Edward Betts <edward@debian.org>]

Takuo KITAME <kitame@northeye.org> wrote:
> I intent to package lukemftp.
>  ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/lukemftp/
> 
> `lukemftp' is what many users affectionately call the enhanced ftp
> client in NetBSD (http://www.netbsd.org).  The `lukem' comes from
> the account name of the NetBSD developer who wrote most of the
> enhancements: Luke Mewburn <lukem@netbsd.org>.
> 
> The enhancements over the standard ftp client in 4.4BSD include:
>    * command-line editing within ftp

Is this libedit, libreadline, another library or specific to the client?

>    * command-line fetching of URLS, including support for:
>        - http proxies (c.f: $http_proxy, $ftp_proxy)
>        - authentication
>    * context sensitive command and filename completion
>    * dynamic progress bar
>    * IPv6 support (from the WIDE project)
>    * modification time preservation
>    * paging of local and remote files, and of directory listings
>      (c.f: `lpage', `page', `pdir')
>    * passive mode support, with fallback to active mode
>    * `set option' override of ftp environment variables
>    * socks4/socks5 support
>    * TIS Firewall Toolkit gate ftp proxy support (c.f: `gate')
>    * transfer-rate throttling (c.f: `-T', `rate')
> 
> 
> License: BSD style

Old style or new style?

> 
> Well, I'll build deb as {Conflicts,Replaces}: ftp

Why conflicts? None of the other ftp clients do, call the execuatable lukemftp
or lukem.

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