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bug#56518: Drop rsh/rlogin/remsh from Ange FTP
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#56518: Drop rsh/rlogin/remsh from Ange FTP |
Date: |
Wed, 13 Jul 2022 14:52:03 +0300 |
> From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>,
> 56518@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2022 12:09:20 +0200
>
> >>>>> On Wed, 13 Jul 2022 11:53:58 +0200, Michael Albinus
> >>>>> <michael.albinus@gmx.de> said:
>
> Michael> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> >>> (I note that Firefox and Chrome dropped FTP support in 2021.
> >>> And the FSF has sunset their FTP servers.)
> >>
> >> Sic transit gloria mundi!
>
> Michael> Yep. But we're Emacs; it will take some further decades before we
> Michael> obsolete the whole ange-ftp.el package. Not before major Linux
> distros
> Michael> ban the ftp packages from their repos.
>
> Telnet is already hard to obtain in many distributions, ftp canʼt be
> far behind (although thereʼs always curl 🙂)
And wget.
What about ncftp, though?