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diff --git a/README.packaging b/README.packaging index c2c798a6..50133b46 100644 --- a/README.packaging +++ b/README.packaging @@ -8,23 +8,40 @@ Greetings, dear packager! The bullet points below mention a few useful hints for package(r)s: -- Fetchmail requires OpenSSL v1.1.1. Fetchmail 6.4 tolerates 1.0.2f for now - but assumes the distributor backports security fixes for it. - -- Fetchmail now uses automake and supports all common automake targets and +- Mind the license difficulties around GPL'd software mixing in + OpenSSL/SSLeay licensed or Apache licensed code! + You cannot use OpenSSL derivative works such as LibreSSL that incur the + OpenSSL or SSLeay licensing terms, see COPYING for details. + +- Note OpenSSL's license changes between v1.1.1 and v3.0. See COPYING. + +- Fetchmail requires OpenSSL or wolfSSL, for details, see README.SSL. + Fetchmail 6.4 tolerates 1.0.2f for now but assumes the distributor backports + security fixes for it. Only link against SSL/TLS library versions + +- Your configuration and examples MUST NOT encourage setups running + fetchmail as the root user. For system-wide setups, a separate user, + possibly in a dedicated group of its own, should be used. + If you want to support --mda setups that impersonate other users, + DO NOT suggest or endorse unmaintained software such as procmail. + Instead, suggest maintained software that supports a "delivery mode", + for instance, Sam Varshavchik's maildrop (which is part of the Courier-MTA + and available separately) and which was designed to be installed set-uid. + +- Fetchmail uses GNU automake/autoconf and supports all common targets and overrides such as "make install-strip" or "DESTDIR=..." for staging areas. - The fetchmailconf script is named fetchmailconf.py, automake will install it into Python's top-level site-packages directory and byte-compile it (so you need to package or remove fetchmailconf.pyc and fetchmailconf.pyo as well). -- If you want to defeat Python byte-code compilation and would rather like to - install fetchmailconf.py yourself, you can add + > If you want to defeat Python byte-code compilation and would rather like to + install fetchmailconf.py yourself, you can add PYTHON=: - to the ./configure command or pass this in the environment. This pretends - that no Python interpreter were installed. + to the ./configure command or pass this in the environment. This pretends + to the configure script that no Python interpreter were installed. - The Makefile generates a two-line "fetchmailconf" /bin/sh wrapper script that executes the actual fetchmailconf.py with the python installation found at |