ftputil should not only be distributed as a tar.gz file but also as a Debian/Ubuntu? package (if possible in the regular distribution, not just as an Debian-wise unofficial .deb package).
Rationale:
Subtasks:
In principle, this applies also to other distributions. The reason for
choosing Debian here is that I (Stefan) usually work with Ubuntu and
could develop this package myself. If you would like to provide a
package for another Unix/Linux? distribution, please send a mail to the
mailing list at ftputil@codespeak.net
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Stefan
Thanks to the help from Debian package maintainer Chris Silva, an ftputil package is now included in Debian's Subversion repository. It hasn't shown up in Sid (Debian Unstable) yet.
Some information on getting Debian packages into Ubuntu is available. I plan to ask for a package sync after the ftputil package shows up in Debian Sid. As far as I understand, if I don't do this, ftputil will only get into the Ubuntu repository of the release after Ubuntu 10.10, i. e. in April 2011.
Since the Debian packaging code in the ftputil repository is no longer used, the Debian package can only come out after ftputil 2.5 has been released, so I move the milestone of this ticket to version 2.6.