Debian closes FTP mirrors for download

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Wednesday, May 10, 2017

On April 25, Debian announced on its website the decision to close its File Transfer Protocol (FTP) services on November 1, 2017. This decision was motivated by efficiency issues with FTP protocol as well as FTP clients, its low usage, and its high effort required to maintain the FTP servers.

The news item included a list of the services to be closed, ftp.debian.org and security.debian.org, both of which contain an FTP server. Users were directed to use the same URL over HTTP.

Wikinews interviewed several members of the Debian project about this decision.

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