README.packaging
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-fetchmail 6.4 changes relevant for packagers
+fetchmail 6.5 changes relevant for packagers
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Greetings, dear packager!
The bullet points below mention a few useful hints for package(r)s:
-- Fetchmail requires a somewhat recent OpenSSL v1.0.2.
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-- Fetchmail now uses automake and supports all common automake targets and
- overrides such as "make install-strip" or "DESTDIR=..." for staging areas.
-
-- The fetchmailconf script is named fetchmailconf.py, automake will install it
- into Python's top-level site-packages directory and byte-compile it (so you
- need to package or remove fetchmailconf.pyc and fetchmailconf.pyo as well).
+- Fetchmail requires OpenSSL v1.1.1 or newer.
- If you want to defeat Python byte-code compilation and would rather like to
install fetchmailconf.py yourself, you can add