Guillem Jover <guil...@debian.org> writes: > Hi! > > On Wed, 2012-05-09 at 22:00:47 +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote: >> Package: inetutils >> Severity: wishlist >> >> InetUtils contains a tftp client as well, and it would be nice to >> package it. > > I've pondered about this on and off, and I'm a bit conflicted. From > a Debian prespective, I'm not sure the tftp client and server bring > anything worthy compared to the existing implementations in the archive, > namely netkit-tftp(d), tftp(d)-hpa and atftp(d). I know that the same > could be said about some of the other packages from inetutils, but at > least those were there from the beginning. Its development seems a bit > stale too. OTOH, from a maintainer PoV, I somewhat like the idea of a > unified suite and shipping as much from upstream inetutils as it is > worth. > > I'd appreciate some input on the above. Also, although a bit late O:), > what's the reason you'd have liked to have these available instead of > the alternatives?
Hi! I noticed that 'apt-get install tftp' doesn't work in trixie since netkit-tftp has disappeared. Which is probably a good thing, the last upstream release was in 2000... It seems 'atftp' is maintained. The last release for 'tftp-hpa' was in 2015 but I'm happy to see some git activity from 2024. I haven't really done any feature comparison between 'atftp' and 'tftp-hpa' against InetUtils tftp. Are there more? I didn't search too hard. Do you (or anyone) know of any substantial feature differences? I continue to see value in inetutils-tftp in Debian since it is actively maintained and part of the same package suite as the other inetutils tools. Maybe this is something to continue discuss for forky. I think 'apt-get install tftp' ought to give some usable tftp client. I think people still use tftp a lot against wireless routers and other network device. /Simon
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