Re: Where does pure-ftpd store files when anonymous logs in?
On Thu Jul 10, 2025 at 5:48 PM BST, hw wrote:
The Debian package doesn't seem to be managed well. It even still
uses an init.d script instead of a service file.
Agreed. The last two versions of it were non-maintainer uploads; the
last of those was 18 months ago; the last actual maintainer upload was
in 2021. It's effectively unmaintained, and the situation might be
improved if that was better recognised.
I've just filed a bug requesting the package is formally orphaned, which
should better signal its actual status within the project.
Debian keeps letting me down now every time. It's scary to see that
it has gone that bad. I was hoping to put it on some servers, but I
might have to go with Fedora instead.
There was a time that the mere fact of a piece of software was packaged
in Debian would guarantee a certain level of quality. I think that time
has unfortunately long since passed. This realisation hit me probably 15
years ago, and has helped shape my thinking on packaging and what a
"Distribution" in the present day should really be. (I might write a
longer piece on that one day.)
I can't speak for the quality of all Fedora packages. I suspect you will
find similarly under-maintained packages there too. But if the relative
quality level is much different, the interesting question to answer
would be: Why?
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