Re: RFS: furl

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Subject: Re: RFS: furl
From: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2008 13:17:55 -0800
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In-reply-to: <[🔎] 20081226205720.GA32095@powdarrmonkey.net> (Jonathan Wiltshire's message of "Fri\, 26 Dec 2008 20\:57\:20 +0000")
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Jonathan Wiltshire <debian@jwiltshire.org.uk> writes:

> More fundamentally:
> What does furl do that other packages can't? We already have curl, lynx,
> wget and even telnet can be used to dump headers. Can you justify having
> this package in the archive?

Also, HEAD from the libwww-perl package, which is designed for exactly
this purpose.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

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