Re: [Fetchmail-users] Password length restriction

[Matthias A. <mat...@gm...>]

Am 15.07.20 um 21:57 schrieb Carlos E. R.:
> On 15/07/2020 19.02, Eike Lantzsch wrote:
>> If you don't mind my AOL-post ...
>> There are some distributions which are not including any recent
>> fetchmail version.
>> I really don't get it why e.g. openSuse comes with 6.3.26 fetchmail.
>
> That's intentional and documented policy.
>
> I guess you are talking of openSUSE Leap 15.x, which is an LTS, thus
> it simply can not change the versions of the core packages during the
> long term period (ie, when it goes to Leap 16), unless the commercial
> distribution from which it derives the core (SLE) switches version first.
>
> However, there is the server:mail repository which has 6.4.1
>
> And there is openSUSE Tumbleweed which also has 6.4.1

Which is outdated, too. 6.4.2 updated fetchmailconf, and 6.4.3 was a
version to receive Linux-relevant bugfixes (6.4.5 for Solaris 10), and
there have been translation updates since, so distros should really move
forward. I believe I have paid sufficient attention that patchlevel
updates within 6.4.x should be safe, with the exception that 6.4.2 also
tightened up the Python requirement for fetchmailconf to >= 2.7.13. This
may hurt LTS releases, but then again, if someone runs a LTS or
commercial distro, that's also the place to go to for support.