Subject: bug#474: avfs: Cannot access ftp and http(s) with avfs

From: Jens Korte <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 22 May 2020 23:35:20 +0200

Package: avfs
Version: 1.0.6-1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

   * What led up to the situation?
I wanted to access a remote ftp/http server and it doesn't work as
documented in /usr/share/doc/avfs/README.gz

   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?
mountavfs # creates the ~/.avfs dir and I can access compressed files
like cat ~/.avfs/usr/share/doc/avfs/README.gz#
from README.gz: "/#ftp:ftp.funet.fi/pub/Linux               - anonymous ftp"
ls ~/.avfs/#ftp:ftp.fau.de # throws error file or dir not found

   * What outcome did you expect instead?
If some extensions don't work any more then they should be remove from
the documentation.

-- System Information:
Distributor ID:	Debian
Description:	Devuan GNU/Linux 3 (beowulf)
Release:	3
Codename:	beowulf
Architecture: x86_64

Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-8-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages avfs depends on:
ii  fuse        2.9.9-1+deb10u1
ii  libbz2-1.0  1.0.6-9.2~deb10u1
ii  libc6       2.28-10
ii  libfuse2    2.9.9-1+deb10u1
ii  liblzma5    5.2.4-1
ii  libzstd1    1.3.8+dfsg-3
ii  zlib1g      1:1.2.11.dfsg-1

avfs recommends no packages.

Versions of packages avfs suggests:
pn  arj         <none>
ii  cdparanoia  3.10.2+debian-13
pn  lha         <none>
ii  p7zip       16.02+dfsg-6
ii  p7zip-full  16.02+dfsg-6
ii  rpm         4.14.2.1+dfsg1-1
ii  unzip       6.0-23+deb10u1
ii  wget        1.20.1-1.1
ii  zip         3.0-11+b1

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