[pkg-fetchmail-maint] RFR: fetchmail-6.3.19 backport to Lenny

Peter Pentchev roam at ringlet.net
Mon May 9 09:44:16 UTC 2011


On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 06:29:17PM +0200, Nico Golde wrote:
> Hi,
> * Peter Pentchev <roam at ringlet.net> [2011-04-28 16:11]:
> > First of all, thanks for your work on making fetchmail available to the
> > Debian community!
> > 
> > A recent discussion on the fetchmail-users list ([1] and then [2]) kind
> > of resulted - all by itself, not my fault, honest! :P - in a quick and
> > dirty backport of fetchmail-6.3.19-1 to Debian Lenny, now available on
> > mentors.d.n:
> > 
> > http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/f/fetchmail/fetchmail_6.3.19-1~bpo50+1.dsc
> > 
> > What do you think about the idea of making a recent version of fetchmail
> > available to Lenny users, too - so that they may fulfil at least the
> > very first recommendation given to problem reports on fetchmail-users -
> > "make sure you're using the latest release"? :)  Of course, as you're
> > the maintainers, it's entirely your call :)
> [...]
> I welcome the idea of having a backport. Have you asked on -mentors already to 
> get this sponsored? I currently don't have the time to check the backport and 
> I guess you don't want to wait another 2 weeks to get it uploaded.

Erm, I'm sorry for the late reply :(  No, I have not asked -mentors yet;
I thought I'd ask the maintainers first, to see if there might be any
reasons *not* to have a backport (though none came to my mind :)

Okay, I'll send an RFS to -mentors; thanks for your reply, and once again
sorry for my delay!

G'luck,
Peter

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