4 fetchmail 6.3.0 changes relevant for packagers
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7 Greetings, dear packager!
9 There are now some changes to the fetchmail 6.3.0 installation layout,
10 which are given as headwords below.
12 - fetchmail now uses automake and supports all common automake targets
13 and overrides such as "make install-strip" or "DESTDIR=..." for staging
16 - the fetchmailconf script has been renamed to fetchmailconf.py,
17 automake will install it into Python's top-level site-packages directory
18 and byte-compile it (so you need to package or remove
19 fetchmailconf.pyc and fetchmailconf.pyo as well)
21 - the Makefile generates a two-line "fetchmailconf" /bin/sh wrapper
22 script that executes the actual fetchmailconf.py with the python
23 installation found at configuration time, so that users can still type
24 "fetchmailconf" rather than "python fetchmailconf"
26 - note that fetchmailconf.py supports a few command line arguments, so
27 it you use local wrapper scripts, be sure they pass on their own
30 - there is now a dummy fetchmailconf manual page which will just source
31 (roff's ".so" command) the fetchmail manual page for now. You can of
32 course keep your symlinks in place and ignore this dummy. IF you
33 install the dummy and compress your man pages, be sure to test "man
34 fetchmailconf", on some systems, you'll need to adjust the ".so"
35 command to point to the compressed version.