Experimental cyrus22 packages (preview of upcoming official packages) available on alioth
Hi.
In a joined effort, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh and myself created
preview packages for the upcoming official cyrus22-imapd packages. Some
more interested maintainers joined the project so that bugfixes/updates
to cyrus22 should be done quite regularly.
We invite you to test and use the packages, but we must warn you that
the packages might not yet be as stable as they should be, so please
don't use them in a production environment unless you know _exactly_
what you are doing. Having said that warning, I confess that I use the
packages in a production environment (not really important, temporary
failures are OK on that system).
If you want to check the packages, either download the source package
from alioth (https://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-cyrus-imapd/) or
download them from my homepage:
# apt-get repository for i386 binaries
deb http://incase.de/cyrus22/i386/ ./
# apt-get repository for a,d64 binaries
deb http://incase.de/cyrus22/amd64/ ./
# apt-get source repository
deb-src http://incase.de/cyrus22/ ./
I'm keen on receiving feedback both on the binary packages as well as
the source package. We had (unreproducable) build problems reported
against the first preview package, so reports against the source package
are really welcome, both for successes and failures.
For now, please send bug reports (and success stories) to:
pkg-cyrus-imapd-debian-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org
Even though I personally use the package in a production environment, it
is strongly discouraged to do so. The packages aren't well tested and
might be _really_ unstable. You have been warned.
cu,
sven
PS: We know others already packaged cyrus22-imapd unofficially. However
all the packages I saw had problems I eliminated with the above packages
(for example build problems when using fakeroot or build problems
regarding the perl elements of cyrus22-imapd). Also, this is the
packaging of cyrus22-imapd which will enter unstable in a while in
accordance to HMH's ITP (#221894).
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