Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2002-08-14 Severity: normal I am quite fed up of fetchmail, and thus not giving it the attention it requires. I am willing to orphan it, along with fetchmail-ssl... if someone steps up to take care of it (after all, I do use it :P ).
Upstream is usually cooperative and easy to work with (Eric Raymond/ESR). He does accept patches that break the hell out of fetchmail from time to time, though. The code is not too buggy, but it is nearly-unmaintaneable C (fetchmail) and very maintaneable but quite large python (fetchmailconf). IMHO (and in upstream's) fetchmail actually needs to be rewritten from scratch in something else than C. Do not apply for adopting this package unless you have a lot of patience and time to deal with the users and unexpected breakages. C knowledge is required. You will have to deal with signal handling hell too, so be warned. Whomever takes fetchmail, will also take fetchmail-ssl. This is non-negotiable: both packages come from the same source package (and should probably be merged into a single one now that sarge is open, and fetchmail-ssl is in main)... -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux khazad-dum 2.4.18 #1 Sat May 11 19:16:08 BRT 2002 i686 Locale: LANG=pt_BR, LC_CTYPE=pt_BR -- no debconf information -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh