From: L A Walsh <cygwin@tlinx.org>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Updated: fetchmail-6.4.14-1
Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2020 18:18:55 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5FC99C8F.4030202@tlinx.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <announce.878sageyug.fsf@Rainer.invalid>
On 2020/12/02 12:29, Achim Gratz wrote:
> fetchmail-6.4.14-1...
>
> This release uses the Python3 interpreter as Python2 is now EOL...
>
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When I look at the binary on linux (ldd), I see no reference to any
python
of any version. I haven't seen the 6.4.14 package for my distro yet,
but the 6.4.12 version doesn't require python.
When I look at the fetchmail website, https://www.fetchmail.info/,
I see that it lists https://sourceforge.net/projects/fetchmail/ as a project
page, but with sources on https://gitlab.com/fetchmail/fetchmail/ .
I see no mention of python being required on its info page, though I see
it mentioned on the sourceforge site.
Should fetchmail have a dependency on python when it doesn't seem to be
needed? Maybe put the python requiring stuff in a separate
'python-fetchmail'
package to install that portion?
Should I be guessing -- is it a python interface for fetchmail?
I know I would be surprised if I went to install (or upgrade)
fetchmail and it required me to install python.
Seems like many(most?) other python interfaces for things reside in
'python-xxxxxx' packages -- is that an oversight for the fetchmail
code?
Tnx!
-linda
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-04 2:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-02 20:29 [ANNOUNCEMENT] " Achim Gratz
2020-12-04 2:18 ` L A Walsh [this message]
2020-12-04 20:18 ` Achim Gratz
2020-12-05 1:21 ` L A Walsh
2020-12-07 17:28 ` Stephen Carrier
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