[Bug 1976361] Re: man page “passes the buck” to a dead end for .netrc docs
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. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1976361 Title: man page “passes the buck” to a dead end for .netrc docs To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fetchmail/+bug/1976361/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1976361] Re: man page “passes the buck” to a dead end for .netrc docs
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 good case for that. ** Changed in: fetchmail (Ubuntu) Status: New => Triaged ** Changed in: fetchmail (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Low -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1976361 Title: man page “passes the buck” to a dead end for .netrc docs To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fetchmail/+bug/1976361/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1976361] Re: man page “passes the buck” to a dead end for .netrc docs
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 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1976361 Title: man page “passes the buck” to a dead end for .netrc docs To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fetchmail/+bug/1976361/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
