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 1003.1. Some systems also have a netrc(5), for
instance, Fedora 36's netkit ftp. So: Valid wishlist item.

However, regarding the guessing: you can have the source code, so USTL:
use the source, Luke. Or whoever you are.

Will consider documenting netrc for upstream as I am the upstream
maintainer, but it is not in my interest to get this back into distros.
Package maintainers in Ubuntu and Debian will need to see to that.
https://gitlab.com/fetchmail/fetchmail/-/issues/46

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