gFTP now in Easy Excalibur

That was a surprise... I wanted to use gFTP, which is a GUI FTP client; but it isn't in the Debian Trixie repository. Yes, there is a package named 'gftp', but it is just a frontend for dependency 'gftp-text', which is only a CLI app. The original gFTP package contains text-mode and GTK2 binaries, and the Debian maintainer has decide to drop the gtk2 binary.

There are very few GUI FTP client apps; I looked around in the Debian repo and could only find Filezilla, which is enormous. The gtk2 gFTP is tiny, and has been builtin in Puppy Linux and EasyOS "forever". Until now.

I have used "equivs" to create dummy empty packages 'gftp', 'gftp-common' and 'gftp-text', and added 'gftp' package from Easy Scarthgap. This is compiled in OpenEmbedded. This will be builtin in the next release of EasyOS.

It is a shame that this kind of thing happens, due to policy decision to deprecate gtk2.

Here is the gFTP project page, it is still an active project:

https://github.com/masneyb/gftp      

Tags: easy