[Bug 2018721] Re: [MIR] netkit-telnet-ssl vs. inetutils-telnet

[Lukas Märdian]

We could also consider ditching telnet altogether. But the reason for it
being there is that it is using to drive automated testing scripts. We
should check if we have a Netcat "nc" implementation available in main,
which could be used instead.

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Title:
  [MIR] netkit-telnet-ssl vs. inetutils-telnet

Status in inetutils package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in netkit-telnet-ssl package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Because of time constraints we decided to use the inetutils-telnet
  package as a replacement for netkit-telnet for lunar, that has been
  dropped altogether from Debian. We did not further investigate netkit-
  telnet-ssl as an alternative. netkit-telnet-ssl seems like a better
  replacement, because it looks like a netkit-telnet fork with added
  security features. Therefore the CLI is a superset of the netkit-
  telnet CLI.

  Using netkit-telnet-ssl would also spare us from the inetutils-telnet
  seeding issue we encountered on the inteutils-telnet MIR (LP: #2008789
  see comment 18-20)

  Note:
  - netkit-telnet-ssl has no autopkgtests, but the current inetutils-telnet autopkgtests are skiped
  - netkit-telnet-ssl installs itself as telnet via update-alternatives
  - check-mir looks good for netkit-telnet-ssl

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