Mattia Rizzolo <mattia@debian.org> writes: > 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. Indeed -- a source code comparison would be great. I believe InetUtils sources share the same origin as NetKit, but diverged at some point. Maybe it is sufficient to compare command line parameters and its stdin/stdout behaviour (prompting etc). > For sure any such takeover can only happen in a few months after > bullseye is released. That would give plenty of testing time before bullseye+1. >> 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. I'm happy to help upstream to make this smoother. /Simon
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