Just got this on the debian boot list.
They are proposing shutting down ftp for package access.
Does that affect us?
-- hendrik
On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 07:10:38AM +0000, Peter Palfrader wrote:
> Hi,
>
> talking to several mirror operators on IRC (including fewllow DSA
> members), I get the impression that a lot of us would appreciate if we
> could deprecate the FTP as a transport protocol.
>
> I suggest we start by removing ftp:// links from the various mirror
> pages and from the mirror masterlist.
>
>
> The latter is also used by the installer, AIUI. -boot folks, can we
> just go ahead and kill the *-ftp: entries from Mirrors.masterlist?
> Do you have any objections or do you need some time before we do that?
>
>
> Cheers,
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