./news/newsfetch, Downloads newsgroup messages in mail file format

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Branch: CURRENT, Version: 1.3nb2, Package name: newsfetch-1.3nb2, Maintainer: jay.fink

NEWSFETCH downloads network news into mail-format files.
It can also pass the fetched news articles to programs like
procmail to process them further into different folders,
forward or deliver them.


Required to build:
[pkgtools/cwrappers]

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Filesize: 11.874 KB

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   2021-10-26 13:09:37 by Nia Alarie | Files touched by this commit (27) 
Log message:
news: Replace RMD160 checksums with BLAKE2s checksums

All checksums have been double-checked against existing RMD160 and
SHA512 hashes
   2021-10-07 16:45:00 by Nia Alarie | Files touched by this commit (27) 
Log message:
news: Remove SHA1 hashes for distfiles
   2016-02-25 17:30:31 by Jonathan Perkin | Files touched by this commit (2) 
Log message:
Use OPSYSVARS.
   2015-11-03 00:49:48 by Alistair G. Crooks | Files touched by this commit (19) 
Log message:
Add SHA512 digests for distfiles for news category

Existing SHA1 digests verified, all found to be the same on the
machine holding the existing distfiles (morden).  Existing SHA1
digests retained for now as an audit trail.
   2012-10-08 14:27:42 by Aleksej Saushev | Files touched by this commit (18) 
Log message:
Drop PKG_DESTDIR_SUPPORT setting, "user-destdir" is default these days.
   2010-03-07 08:28:22 by David A. Holland | Files touched by this commit (3) 
Log message:
Increase MAXBUFSIZE as recommended by jrf to fix PR 36882. I've changed
it from 500 to 5000, which should be ample. PKGREVISION to 2.
   2009-10-29 23:40:23 by Tobias Nygren | Files touched by this commit (3) 
Log message:
Support DESTDIR and PKGMANDIR
   2009-04-16 19:00:31 by Jason R. Fink | Files touched by this commit (1) 
Log message:
Updated location, email and note the new 1.4 version has bug reported in PR \ 
36882 fixed. Will be uploading soon.