4 fetchmail 6.4 changes relevant for packagers
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7 Greetings, dear packager!
9 The bullet points below mention a few useful hints for package(r)s:
11 - Fetchmail requires a somewhat recent OpenSSL v1.0.2.
14 - If you want to defeat Python byte-code compilation and would rather like to
15 install fetchmailconf.py yourself, you can add
19 to the ./configure command or pass this in the environment. This pretends
20 that no Python interpreter were installed.
22 - The Makefile generates a two-line "fetchmailconf" /bin/sh wrapper script that
23 executes the actual fetchmailconf.py with the python installation found at
24 configuration time, so that users can still type "fetchmailconf" rather than
25 "python fetchmailconf".
27 - Note that fetchmailconf.py supports a few command line arguments, so if you
28 use local wrapper scripts, be sure they pass on their own arguments properly.
29 Remember to use "$@" (with quotes) in shells, not $*.
31 - There is now a dummy fetchmailconf manual page which will just source (roff's
32 ".so" command) the fetchmail manual page for now. You can of course keep your
33 symlinks in place and ignore this dummy. IF you install the dummy and
34 compress your man pages, be sure to test "man fetchmailconf", on some
35 systems, you'll need to adjust the ".so" command to point to the compressed