Bug 195991 - stabilize net-mail/getmail-4.7.6
Bug#: 195991 Product:  Gentoo Linux Version: unspecified Platform: All
OS/Version: Linux Status: RESOLVED Severity: trivial Priority: P2
Resolution: FIXED Assigned To: net-mail@gentoo.org Reported By: henkjans_bagger@hotmail.com
Component: Applications
URL: 
Summary: stabilize net-mail/getmail-4.7.6
Keywords:  STABLEREQ
Status Whiteboard: 
Opened: 2007-10-15 21:58 0000
Description:   Opened: 2007-10-15 21:58 0000
Current stable version for getmail is getmail-4.7.2 (dates from february 2007).
Four more recent versions of getmail are in ~, but none have been stabilized.
The latest version getmail-4.7.6 has been added to ~ on the 9th of August and
has no bugs reported during the last two months. Please stabilize getmail-4.7.6
as the updates seem to be minor bugfixes only:

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[from the changelog on the getmail website]
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Version 4.7.6
8 August 2007

  -fix exception when getmail is trying to report a POP3 server that
  completely missed generating a UIDL token for a message.
  Thanks: Hans Lammerts.

Version 4.7.5
6 June 2007

  -make updatefile honour symlinks, so users can alias one server's oldmail
  state file to another (for split-horizon DNS and other strange 
  configurations).  Thanks: Scott Hepler.

Version 4.7.4
24 April 2007

  -explicitly watch for broken POP3 servers that return a blank UIDL value
  (not permitted by the POP3 protocol) and print a fatal error message.
  Thanks: Florian Hackenberger and Cameron Rangeley.

Version 4.7.3
18 March 2007

  -fix wrong bytecount displayed in summary at end of run.  Thanks: Andreas
  Jung.

------- Comment #1 From Andrej Kacian (RETIRED) 2007-11-11 22:48:24 0000 -------
Arches, please do.

------- Comment #2 From Dawid Węgliński 2007-11-12 00:13:22 0000 -------
x86 stable

------- Comment #3 From Steve Dibb 2007-11-14 04:00:47 0000 -------
amd64 stable

------- Comment #4 From nixnut 2007-11-16 18:17:25 0000 -------
ppc stable

------- Comment #5 From Raúl Porcel 2007-11-20 14:32:49 0000 -------
alpha/sparc stable, closing