Package: socat Version: 2.0.0~beta4-1.1 Severity: wishlist readline support in socat is disabled for good licensing reasons (see #632481), but line editing support is practical (and advertised in the man page).
it seems that the editline library (or possibly the unpackaged linenoise library) could provide a drop-in replacement for most of api and functionality. the netkit-ftp-ssl package uses a moderate patch to achieve that[1], something similar could be possible for socat as well. my own attempts at that failed already at building the unmodified socat, which i can't track down any further right now. this wishlist item is something that could well go to the upstream wishlist as well, but it is my impression that it's primarily debian and similarly strict distributions where the issue itches. thanks for providing the socat package chrysn [1] https://sources.debian.net/patches/netkit-ftp-ssl/0.17.33%2B0.2-2/640_use_editline.diff/ -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.7.0-rc1+ (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init) Versions of packages socat depends on: ii libc6 2.22-10 ii libssl1.0.0 1.0.2d-1 ii libwrap0 7.6.q-25 socat recommends no packages. socat suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To use raw power is to make yourself infinitely vulnerable to greater powers. -- Bene Gesserit axiom
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