Re: policy Q's WRT imapd
On Mon, 26 Jan 1998, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote:
> 1. Is the use of liblockfile mandatory or just A Good Thing? (or a bad
> thing?)
See policy manual, section 4.5. It's current policy for MTAs and MUAs to
either use liblockfile or implement a compatible locking mechanism.
> imapd has its own locking scheme which it shares with pine but no other
> apps afaik. Is that ok or shall I patch it to use liblockfile?
Unless it's compatible with liblockfile's mechanism, you should patch it.
(I'm using pine myself and discovered that it's _not_ compatible, when
using it over a NFS mounted /var/spool/mail)
> Also Ilya Ovchinnikov has sent me a patch which he claims "...fixed
> locking problems with imap-4" The diff for this patch is available under
> Bug #10749. Does the code therein satisfy Debian policy for locking?
>
> 2. Is beta software ok?
>
> I've packaged a new version of imapd, version 4.1.BETA. It is a snapshot
> of the upstream authors current development as of 12/31/97. It compiles
> more cleanly than the old one, has some bug fixes and seems to be stable
> in my limited testing, but as the name suggests, it is a beta version.
> Should I go ahead and release it anyway?
Yes. Beta software is ok for "unstable". Only "critical" software (i.e.,
programs that are likely to trash your filesystem) should go into
"experimental".
> 3. What is the procedure for getting the QA group to test a package?
>
> The current imapd package and the new one both work well for me but I
> don't have an NFS environment or anything to really test issues like
> locking. So I'd like the QA group to take a look. Because if there is a
> chance it could eat mail, I think we should just take it out of the
> distribution.
I don't know (yet) whom to contact about that. But why don't you just send
a short note to debian-devel about this? I'm sure you'll find someone to
test this out for you.
Thanks,
Chris
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