Re: proftpd in testing

From	Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: proftpd in testing
Date	2016-12-11 15:40 +0100
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	Hi.

On Sun, 11 Dec 2016 12:02:02 +0100
Florian Lindner <mailinglists@xgm.de> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I'm currently doing a re-setup of my server on Debian Testing. My old
> server, which is on oldstable used proftpd as FTP server.
> 
> https://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=sourcenames&keywords=proftpd
> 
> proftpd seems to be removed from Stretch. Is that true or a
> misunderstanding on my side? Why was it removed? Lack of maintainer or a
> specific reason?

These two bugs are not fixed in this package, one of them has Release
Critical priority, hence proftpd gets droped from the testing:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=831961

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=836759

Also,

https://packages.qa.debian.org/p/proftpd-dfsg.html

https://packages.qa.debian.org/p/proftpd-dfsg/news/20160924T163915Z.html


> Can you recommend any alternatives? Nothing fancy, just a ftp server
> that can use mysql as authentication and bear the load of approx on or
> two logins in a week... ;-)

Maybe vsftpd. I'm unsure about mysql authentication though.

Reco

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proftpd in testing Florian Lindner <mailinglists@xgm.de> - 2016-12-11 15:30 +0100
  Re: proftpd in testing Floris <jkfloris@dds.nl> - 2016-12-11 15:40 +0100
    Re: proftpd in testing Florian Lindner <mailinglists@xgm.de> - 2016-12-16 19:30 +0100
  Re: proftpd in testing Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> - 2016-12-11 15:40 +0100

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