Bug 2203331

Summary:	Abandonware, use rclone instead
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	David Auer <dreua>
Component:	curlftpfs	Assignee:	Ali Erdinc Koroglu <aekoroglu>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	rawhide	CC:	aekoroglu, pahan
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Description David Auer 2023-05-11 23:38:11 UTC

It is of course no drop in replacement but I think users should be made aware that curlftpfs has been abandoned for a really long time. `rclone` is a modern alternative with the capability to mount ftp shares, and much more. Unfortunately it is not easy to find this alternative if you don't know what you are looking for.

Not sure whether there is a good way to communicate such information through the package but at least I wanted to create this bug in case someone is looking here in bugzilla ;)

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Fedora Release Engineering 2023-08-16 08:09:26 UTC

This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora Linux 39 development cycle.
Changing version to 39.

Comment 2 Aoife Moloney 2024-11-08 10:52:19 UTC

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Comment 3 David Auer 2024-11-08 12:44:39 UTC

Still available as package in Fedora 41, I'd argue that this software should be removed. Sourcefourge lists the last update on 2013-05-02 which is far too old to assume that this is still safe to use.

Comment 4 Fedora Admin user for bugzilla script actions 2025-07-11 00:58:34 UTC

This package has changed maintainer in Fedora. Reassigning to the new maintainer of this component.

Comment 5 David Auer 2025-07-11 18:05:59 UTC

Resetting version to rawhide.

Link to sourceforge: https://sourceforge.net/projects/curlftpfs/files/latest/download (Still last updated 2013, no surprises here ;)