Thanks for explaining the situation. Sounds like just some bad luck. Even so, it would still be good if a mechanism could be created that would prevent this from happening in the future.
I appreciate your sending the link to the prior package. It made it much easier to go back, and now my mail is flowing again.. I've also held the package until I see an OpenSSL update. Thanks again for your Debian participation. We really appreciate it! László Böszörményi (GCS) <g...@debian.org> wrote: > On Sun, Nov 1, 2020 at 1:06 AM Bill Wohler <woh...@newt.com> wrote: > > Same here. > > > > Will you be able to fix this now so that everyone using fetchmail can > > get mail without having to jump through hoops like building fetchmail or > > finding the previous package? > You can fetch the previous package version and its binaries[1] if you > would like to. You can also enable the Sid repository, upgrade _only_ > libssl1.1 from there then disable it. > I will not be able to fix this due to how the packaging system works. > When a Debian maintainer releases a new package version, s/he builds > and tests it with the Sid/unstable repository. Buildd machines do very > similar: build the package if the specified build dependencies and > those minimal versions are met. Basically after some days the package > migrates to testing / Bullseye if the following are true: the package > built on all primary architectures it supports, doesn't have a serious > bug reported against, its dependencies are in testing (or can migrate > at the same time) and the package self-tests are successful. > It was true for fetchmail but the new OpenSSL package (possibly due to > upstream change) breaks other packages and can't migrate as is. But > compiled code in fetchmail checks if the OpenSSL library is at least > that version which was used for compilation. This is not true and it > refuses to work. It will be solved by itself as soon as the OpenSSL > package is fixed - unfortunately I don't see any steps toward this. > Until then you can grab the previous fetchmail package version or > upgrade to the newer OpenSSL package in Sid (which may break other > packages using that). > > Regards, > Laszlo/GCS > [1] http://snapshot.debian.org/package/fetchmail/6.4.12-1/ > -- Bill Wohler <woh...@newt.com> aka <bill.woh...@nasa.gov> http://www.newt.com/wohler/, GnuPG ID:610BD9AD
