bug#64237: closed ([PATCH] Don't require 'rsync' as a prerequisite. It is no longer needed since 2018.)

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needed since 2018.
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--- Begin Message --- Subject: [PATCH] Don't require 'rsync' as a prerequisite. It is no longer needed since 2018. Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2023 01:26:58 +0200

The need for the (unsecure) rsync was removed from gnulib's 'bootstrap' program 
in
October 2018. Thus, it is no longer a build requirement for GNU sed.

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> Re: bug#64237: [PATCH] Don't require 'rsync' as a prerequisite. It is no longer needed since 2018.
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> On Thu, Jun 22, 2023 at 4:28 PM Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> wrote:
> > The need for the (unsecure) rsync was removed from gnulib's 'bootstrap' 
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> > October 2018. Thus, it is no longer a build requirement for GNU sed.
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> Thanks, Bruno.
> That was part of my just-pushed (but from May) diff:
> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/sed.git/commit/?id=a9e25136f95f28d795b2d16b272680daeb1b5c0a
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