Re: sftp no longer supported by Konqueror?
Am Samstag, 30. August 2014, 19:39:11 schrieb Mirosław Zalewski:
> Dnia 2014-08-30, o godz. 19:00:31
>
> Volker Wysk <pf3@volker-wysk.de> napisał(a):
> > Is this a bug in konqueror? I think the URL isn't improperly
> > formatted. I'm using the latest version of konqueror (4.14.0).
>
> Basically: kde-runtime contains kio-sftp, which links against libssh,
> which links against OpenSSL. Some parts of this chain uses different
> license than other parts. This is legal issue (with technical
> implications) and Debian maintainers and KDE developers disagreed how
> it should be handled, both parties saying that issue is on the other
> side.
>
> You can read https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=750867
> and https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=337397 if you are interested
> in details and want to paint broader picture.
>
> From what I understand, consensus has been reached and sftp support
> will be re-introduced in next release of KDE packages in Debian. Until
> then, you may downgrade your packages (probably bad idea) or rebuild
> them to enable support of sftp.
I see. I guess I will wait for the next release of KDE to appear in Debian.
The machines from which I wish to connect via SFTP are using an earlier
version (I think). I don't really need to connect to my own machine with SFTP.
;-)
Thank you for your explaination.
Volker Wysk
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