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Re: Bug#225048: All my current hinting suggestions (includes XFree86)



On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 16:54, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, Steve Langasek wrote:
> 
> > > => remove dovecot/0.99.10.4-3
> > > #225048 (data loss).  I know this has been argued, but I still think it's
> > > not right to ship a package with a dataloss bug like this; your mileage may
> > > vary.
> >
> > My mileage doesn't vary.  Package also was not shipped with woody; I
> > don't see any reason to be lenient about letting another buggy imap
> > server into stable, we have some of those there already.
> >
> 
> Note there is only one user who thinks this package loses data.  I have
> kept the severity as grave because upstream agrees that this might be the
> case.  But I've heard nothing else on this from anyone.  Perhaps a
> severity downgrade is in order?

	Doesn't this bug only happen in mbox files? You could simply drop mbox
support, it appears to be working fine with maildir (which is how I
suspect how must people are using it (I certainly am (woah! 3 levels of
nested brackets))).

	It'd be a shame to not have dovecot in sarge...

	Cheers,

Pasc
-- 
Pascal Hakim
Do Not Bend

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