Please assume good faith.

I am not endorsing free ride, but rather looking at this from another
perspective. I filed the issue because a baseline regression in
autopkgtests means that much loss of test coverage for fetchmail's
dependencies. *That* is the issue I care about.

Packaging a new upstream version means more work for Lena, but also more
risks of other issues and incompatibilities cropping up, which would
delay the landing of the fix. In essence, it's a riskier approach.

However, my comment was a bit on the flippant side, my apologies for
that. It seems that I'm especially lacking in tact and empathy today :-/

I hear your frustration with older versions, and we probably could do a
better job of monitoring our "upstream lag". It is not our intention to
add an extra burden of support for the upstream maintainers. It *is*
completely fair to redirect users to our bug tracker, which would
actually help us realize that we're out of date!

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