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>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>
To: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 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 12:09:20 +0200
>>>>> On Wed, 13 Jul 2022 11:53:58 +0200, Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de> said:

    Michael> 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!

    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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