Bug#833536: pkg-haskell-tools: dht should allow uploading by FTP

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Joachim Breitner (2016-08-05 21:04:06)
> Am Freitag, den 05.08.2016, 09:47 -0700 schrieb Sean Whitton:
> > Is there some reason that dht's upload subcommand uploads to ftp- 
> > master with SSH rather than FTP?  This prevents Debian Maintainers 
> > from using the command to upload.
> > 
> > If there is no good reason, we could change it to use FTP.
> > Alternatively, we could add a command line flag to select FTP or SSH
> > --
> > not sure what the default should be.
> 
> the reason is that I have had many FTP uploads fail and partial files 
> blocking further uploaing, which is a PITA. With ssh, partial uploads 
> do not happen (I think).
> 
> Anyways, "dht upload" should simply allow passing a parameter to dput 
> as HOST. Any maybe anyone who wants a non-default HOST should figure 
> out how to change dput’s defaults…

I have experienced (generally in Debian, not specifically for Haskell), 
some cases of ftp uploads failing where I receiving no information about 
it, and when I - after discovering many weeks later - asked ftpmasters I 
was told that since ftp is anonymous there is no way to inform either.

Since then I have used ssh for uploads.  I am not sure if there are any 
automated warning mechanisms in place when things go wrong, but at least 
if there is a larger fallout (as I can imagine might happen for mass 
uploads due to the maintenance style of Haskell packages) ftpmasters has 
a chance of noticing manually in log files whom to contact when using 
ssh.

So I'd recommend favoring ssh - and support ftp only as fallback for 
situations where ssh is not possible.


 - Jonas

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