Athos, just to make sure we do not misunderstand: there has been no word of
patches from me.
Any downstream backporting will be "pluck the commits from Git repo and
integrate them yourselves". I may answer questions, but I will not sort out the
SRU merge for Ubuntu Linux.
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Thanks for the report, Bill. And thanks for willing to solve this
upstream, Matthias!
Since upstream is aware and will provide the requested docs in a future
release, we can wait for that patch to be ready, then we can pull that
into the development release and consider SRUing it if we can make a
Re 1 - Ubuntu's packaging bug. It is the distributor's obligation to
properly integrate packages.
Re 2 - not a bug in fetchmail.
Re 3 - Yes, users can expect as much, but you are right that this is not
really viable because there is no such thing as a standard ftp(1). It is
not part of IEEE
