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Re: [bug-inetutils] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_GNU_packages
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John Darrington |
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Re: [bug-inetutils] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_GNU_packages |
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Sun, 7 Jul 2019 02:42:29 -0400 |
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GNU finger was decommisioned several years ago when the maintainer
went AWOL. There is a note in the entry that it would be integrated into
inetutils.
But so far as I can tell, this hasn't happended.
Inetutils maintaers: Do you have any plans for this?
J'
On Sat, Jul 06, 2019 at 07:59:36PM -0400, Richard Stallman wrote:
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> What's the situation with this?
>
> > One entry in that list which suprised me was "finger". When I looked,
> > in our records however, it seems that we used to have such a package,
> > but it was decommisioned in 2008 with a note saying that it would
> > be rolled into inetutils. But inetutils hasn't done anything about
> > it so far as I can tell.
>
> ISTR it was established that our finger program is really obsolete.
> Is there any error about finger in GNU project records and statements?
>
> --
> Dr Richard Stallman
> President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org)
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