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Bug#205566: Please add dovecot to the list of services restarted on an upgrade



Package: libc6
Severity:  wishlist

A user sent me the following report:

> Updated this morning (apt-get upgrade), on unstable (i386).  Since I
> pass -u, I could tell that I didn't want to be in X while doing this, so
> bailed to tty, stopped gdm, ran the upgrade (upgrade of libc6).  Since
> it upgraded libc, it told me it wanted to restart services; fine, I was
> in a hurry, didn't pay attention.
>
> On restarting X, and opening my mail client, I found that I couldn't
> access the local imap server.  imap-auth died.  Stirrings of panic.
> Test with mutt.  No login.  I didn't remember a dovecot upgrade.  Check
> two other machines running it ... no, they're okay ... but they're
> older.  Full-scale panic proposed as the proper response, narrowly
> defeated in debates on the floor.
>
> To cut to the chase, it turns out that dovecot wasn't tagged as a
> service needing a restart when libc was installed.  And presumably,
> whatever is there listening on the port (imap-login?) was having
> problems whenever it tried to get an imap-auth.  /etc/init.d/dovecot
> stop followed by start, everything's fine.  But shouldn't dovecot get
> tagged as a service needing restart, when the libc updates require it?

Can /etc/init.d/dovecot be added to the list of services restarted by
libc6?

-- 
Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar@debian.org>
La Salle Debain - http://www.braincells.com/debian/




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