Bug 257024 - mail/getmail6: emergency hotfix patch for 6.18
Summary: mail/getmail6: emergency hotfix patch for 6.18
Status: Closed FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Ports & Packages
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Individual Port(s) (show other bugs)
Version: Latest
Hardware: Any Any
: --- Affects Many People
Assignee: Joseph Mingrone
URL: https://github.com/getmail6/getmail6/...
Keywords:
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2021-07-06 16:52 UTC by Michael Büker
Modified: 2021-07-07 11:25 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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portstree patch with hotfix (1.58 KB, patch)
2021-07-06 16:52 UTC, Michael Büker
freebsd: maintainer-approval+
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Description Michael Büker 2021-07-06 16:52:08 UTC
Created attachment 226271 [details]
portstree patch with hotfix

A feature added in 6.18 causes problems: when trying to use all files in --getmaildir, getmail will choke on oldmail-* files, which are highly likely to be present.

Since this is the new default behaviour for running getmail without any arguments, this change is very likely to break many installations.

This patch is the fix committed upstream as 9d15886, fast-tracked into the ports tree here instead of waiting for the bugfix release.
Comment 1 commit-hook freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2021-07-06 17:13:34 UTC
A commit in branch main references this bug:

URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/ports/commit/?id=1a923b333bdf86a2279334dad3afc736a67442f6

commit 1a923b333bdf86a2279334dad3afc736a67442f6
Author:     Joseph Mingrone <jrm@FreeBSD.org>
AuthorDate: 2021-07-06 16:59:22 +0000
Commit:     Joseph Mingrone <jrm@FreeBSD.org>
CommitDate: 2021-07-06 17:12:39 +0000

    mail/getmail6: emergency hotfix for 6.18

    A feature added in 6.18 causes problems.  When trying to use all files in
    --getmaildir, getmail will choke on oldmail-* files, which are likely to be
    present.  Since this is the new default behaviour for running getmail without
    any arguments, this change is very likely to break many installations.

    PR:             257024
    Reported by:    Michael Büker <freebsd@michael-bueker.de> (maintainer)

 mail/getmail6/Makefile | 6 ++++--
 mail/getmail6/distinfo | 6 +++---
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
Comment 2 Joseph Mingrone freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2021-07-07 11:25:45 UTC
Thanks.  Changing this to 'fixed' since we did add a fix even though this release was short-lived.