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On 2020/12/04 12:18, Achim Gratz wrote:
> L A Walsh writes:
>   
>>    I see no reference to any python of any version. 
>>     
>
> Yes, the package does depend on it, and as noted in the announcement it depends specifically on python36.
>   
----
    So, people who configure fetchmail with the man page and have never used
fetchmailconf should get in the habit of ignoring package requirements?  
Not sure
how good that is.

>   
>>    When I look at the fetchmail website, https://www.fetchmail.info/,
>> I see that it lists https://sourceforge.net/projects/fetchmail/ as a project
>> page, but with sources on https://gitlab.com/fetchmail/fetchmail/ .
>>
>>    I see no mention of python being required on its info page, though I see
>> it mentioned on the sourceforge site.
>>     
>
> Oh please, it isn't all that hard to figure out that fetchmailconf is
> implemented in Python.
>   
Oh please yourself!  :^)
I've never used fetchmailconf in using fetchmail.  fetchmail doesn't
require python -- a special "fetchmailconf" requires it, which wasn't
part of fetchmail when I started using it -- for that matter it still isn't
part of my linux distro's fetchmail.

I read the manpage and edited .fetchmailrc in my home directory.

I started using fetchmail before fetchmailconf was around, AFAIK.

Maybe putting fetchmailconf in its own package would be appropriate?

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