Bug#941129: fetchmail: pidfile behavior changed

2019-09-28 Thread GCS
On Sat, Sep 28, 2019 at 12:28 PM Alex Andreotti wrote: > On Sat, Sep 28, 2019 at 09:15:42AM +0200, László Böszörményi (GCS) wrote: > > Can you revert to 6.4.0~rc3-1 and check it? But I'm going to update > > the packaging to the fixed upstream release. Please test that anyway. > > I tried,

Bug#941129: fetchmail: pidfile behavior changed

2019-09-28 Thread Alex Andreotti
On Sat, Sep 28, 2019 at 03:22:51AM +0200, Matthias Andree wrote: [cut] > fetchmail behaved inconsistently between daemon and non-detaching modes > in the upstream version without Debian patches already until 6.4.0-rc4, > and that needed fixing, and is what I've fixed. > > If there are

Bug#941129: fetchmail: pidfile behavior changed

2019-09-28 Thread GCS
On Sat, Sep 28, 2019 at 1:03 AM Alex Andreotti wrote: > Attention, I was using it with a relative path and it worked, the > behavior change is that it stopped working, I believe with one of the > two updates below: This would be strange, but let's see the changes. > September 4 > >

Bug#941129: fetchmail: pidfile behavior changed

2019-09-27 Thread Matthias Andree
Am 28.09.19 um 00:59 schrieb Alex Andreotti: > Attention, I was using it with a relative path and it worked, the > behavior change is that it stopped working, I believe with one of the > two updates below: fetchmail behaved inconsistently between daemon and non-detaching modes in the upstream

Bug#941129: fetchmail: pidfile behavior changed

2019-09-27 Thread Alex Andreotti
Attention, I was using it with a relative path and it worked, the behavior change is that it stopped working, I believe with one of the two updates below: September 4 fetchmail (6.4.0~rc4-1) unstable; urgency=medium * New major upstream RC release. * Remove outdated and

Bug#941129: fetchmail: pidfile behavior changed

2019-09-27 Thread Matthias Andree
Control: tags -1 confirmed upstream Alex, thanks for your report, you've found a very long-standing inconsistency in fetchmail's behaviour. The workaround is to give an *absolute* path for FETCHMAILHOME in daemon mode. This will be fixed in 6.4.0.

Bug#941129: fetchmail: pidfile behavior changed

2019-09-25 Thread Alex Andreotti
Package: fetchmail Version: 6.4.0~rc4-2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? I have been using fetchmail for several years to download mail from multiple accounts, one instance for each account using the FETCHMAILHOME variable. I realized only today that it was