Hi!
On Thu, Apr 15, 2021 at 12:50:13PM +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote:
> Hi! Upstream is not maintained either -- at least the download URL in
> netkit-telnet's debian/copyright file does not work. How about dropping
> netkit-telnet from Debian? GNU InetUtils provides telnet+telnetd and
> appears to be actively maintained both in Debian and upstream, and could
> provide the packages going forward.
Considering how popular telent is, this is a migration that needs to be
taken with care.
I have no stake on netkit-telnet myself, and I honestly do not care as
long as a working `telent` is available. But since this is the default
`telnet` it needs to be properly evaluated.
For sure any such takeover can only happen in a few months after
bullseye is released.
> Cc'ing Debian maintainer of inetutils too, do
> you have any comments Guillem?
Overall, with netkit-telnet orphaned, I think the final opinion rests on
Guillem. If he believes this is the way forward, I encourage him to
simply build a transitional package from src:inetutils.
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