GNU bug report logs - #56518
Drop rsh/rlogin/remsh from Ange FTP

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>

Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2022 14:56:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Done: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>

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From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>, 56518 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#56518: Drop rsh/rlogin/remsh from Ange FTP
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2022 11:53:58 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> 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!

Yep. But we're Emacs; it will take some further decades before we
obsolete the whole ange-ftp.el package. Not before major Linux distros
ban the ftp packages from their repos.

Best regards, Michael.
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