[MIR] netkit-telnet-ssl vs. inetutils-telnet
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| inetutils (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
| netkit-telnet-ssl (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Because of time constraints we decided to use the inetutils-telnet package as a replacement for netkit-telnet for lunar, that has been dropped altogether from Debian. We did not further investigate netkit-telnet-ssl as an alternative. netkit-telnet-ssl seems like a better replacement, because it looks like a netkit-telnet fork with added security features. Therefore the CLI is a superset of the netkit-telnet CLI.
Using netkit-telnet-ssl would also spare us from the inetutils-telnet seeding issue we encountered on the inteutils-telnet MIR (LP: #2008789 see comment 18-20)
Note:
- netkit-telnet-ssl has no autopkgtests, but the current inetutils-telnet autopkgtests are skiped
- netkit-telnet-ssl installs itself as telnet via update-alternatives
- check-mir looks good for netkit-telnet-ssl
| tags: |
added: rls-mm-notfixing removed: rls-mm-incoming |
| Lukas Märdian (slyon) wrote | #1 |
| Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote | #2 |
| Lukas Märdian (slyon) wrote | #3 |
We could also consider ditching telnet altogether. But the reason for it being there is that it is using to drive automated testing scripts. We should check if we have a Netcat "nc" implementation available in main, which could be used instead.