@lvoytek: Your initiative and efforts are greatly appreciated.  Thanks
for driving the FFe process!

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@schopin what you are proposing in comment #4, to me, seems like a
pretty strange and local optimization you're proposing. That is because
shipping outdated EOL software with a future release and with known bugs
fixed in an established version for months on end lets your user hang
without bugfixes and also cements the support burden: users seek support
because bugs remain unfixed, I will turn them away or tell them to
install newer software, and they come running to Ubuntu to complaint.

And to vent another frustration, Debian hasn't updated to 6.5.X in due time for 
13/Trixie. Ubuntu inherited that. But I am also unaware of Ubuntu attempting to 
assist Debian, the package they stand on. 
https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/fetchmail   
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1111514

It's especially frustrating that nothing happened in half a year,
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1096626 was filed Mid
February 2025 already.

Not updating for a non-LTS release where you have plenty of time for
fixing things also does not seem a careful approach to me - you'd rather
want to know now than in the few weeks before LTS if something were
amiss.

To me this feels pretty much like Simon Chopin endorsing to freeride on
everybody else's spare time, and I do not appreciate that.  Debian will
also need to do their share to respond in a more timely manner to FTBFS
reports.


** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #1111514
   https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1111514

** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #1096626
   https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1096626

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