Subject: Re: bug#64237: [PATCH] Don't require 'rsync' as a prerequisite. It is no longer needed since 2018.

From: Jim Meyering <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2023 17:37:25 -0700

On Thu, Jun 22, 2023 at 4:28 PM Bruno Haible <[email-masked]> wrote:
> The need for the (unsecure) rsync was removed from gnulib's 'bootstrap' program in
> October 2018. Thus, it is no longer a build requirement for GNU sed.

Thanks, Bruno.
That was part of my just-pushed (but from May) diff:
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/sed.git/commit/?id=a9e25136f95f28d795b2d16b272680daeb1b5c0a