From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from Ishtar.sc.tlinx.org (ishtar.tlinx.org [173.164.175.65]) by sourceware.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 81C8D385780B for ; Sat, 5 Dec 2020 01:22:13 +0000 (GMT) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 sourceware.org 81C8D385780B Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=tlinx.org Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=cygwin@tlinx.org Received: from [192.168.3.12] (Athenae [192.168.3.12]) by Ishtar.sc.tlinx.org (8.14.7/8.14.4/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id 0B51JxDV028613; Fri, 4 Dec 2020 17:20:02 -0800 Message-ID: <5FCAE08A.7090609@tlinx.org> Date: Fri, 04 Dec 2020 17:21:14 -0800 From: L A Walsh User-Agent: Thunderbird MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Achim Gratz CC: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Updated: fetchmail-6.4.14-1 References: <5FC99C8F.4030202@tlinx.org> <87tut1wcis.fsf@Rainer.invalid> In-Reply-To: <87tut1wcis.fsf@Rainer.invalid> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, KAM_DMARC_STATUS, KAM_NUMSUBJECT, SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_PASS, TXREP autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on server2.sourceware.org X-BeenThere: cygwin@cygwin.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: General Cygwin discussions and problem reports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 05 Dec 2020 01:22:15 -0000 On 2020/12/04 12:18, Achim Gratz wrote: > L A Walsh writes: > >> I see no reference to any python of any version. >> > > Yes, the package does depend on it, and as noted in the announcement it depends specifically on python36. > ---- So, people who configure fetchmail with the man page and have never used fetchmailconf should get in the habit of ignoring package requirements? Not sure how good that is. > >> 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. >> > > Oh please, it isn't all that hard to figure out that fetchmailconf is > implemented in Python. > Oh please yourself! :^) I've never used fetchmailconf in using fetchmail. fetchmail doesn't require python -- a special "fetchmailconf" requires it, which wasn't part of fetchmail when I started using it -- for that matter it still isn't part of my linux distro's fetchmail. I read the manpage and edited .fetchmailrc in my home directory. I started using fetchmail before fetchmailconf was around, AFAIK. Maybe putting fetchmailconf in its own package would be appropriate?