Subject: bug#56518: Drop rsh/rlogin/remsh from Ange FTP

From: Robert Pluim <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2022 12:09:20 +0200

>>>>> On Wed, 13 Jul 2022 11:53:58 +0200, Michael Albinus <[email-masked]> said:

    Michael> Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> 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 🙂)

Robert
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