Bug#595500: RFA: wu-ftpd

[Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@debian.org>]

On Sat, Sep 04, 2010 at 04:22:56PM +0100, Chris Butler wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: normal
> 
> I intend to orphan the wu-ftpd package in the near future. I no longer run
> it anywhere, so the package is a bit out of shape.
> 
> There was very little upstream activity for a number of years (although
> there has been some revival of the project recently).
> 
> The package's popcon is on the decline, and there are other, modern ftp
> servers in the archive, so I may consider asking for wu-ftpd to be removed
> if no-one shows interest in picking it up. 

Chris,
shall we go ahead with removing wu-ftpd? The Wheezy freeze is coming
close and there haven't been any adopters in 1.5 years.

Having it in the archive with a dead upstream and without an active
maintainer is going to be problematic in case of security issues.

Given that besser alternatives exist and wu-ftpd doesn't support IPv6
removal seems the best course of action.

Cheers,
        Moritz