[Dovecot] Fedora Core 5 has Dovecot 0.99

[Reuben Farrelly]

On 11/01/2006 1:56 a.m., Marc Perkel wrote:
> For what it's worth I just went to the Fedora Core 5 test release 
> download page and Fedora still has Dovecot 0.99.14 in it's list of 
> files. I'm guessing they are afraid of the Alpha label. I'd really like 
> to see Fedora 5 have Dovecot 1.0. You might want to look into this.
> 
> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/x86_64/Fedora/RPMS/ 

It's not the 'alpha' label that is the problem, as far as I can tell, it's more 
a case of someone actually maintaining the package.  There was a discussion 
about this on the Fedora Devel mailing list a few weeks ago whereby a small 
number of us were petitioning dovecot to be upgraded, but it seems to have 
fallen on deaf ears.

The main bugzilla entry for this is:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=170960

Note in comment #1 where the maintainer says "I'm being transitioned to other 
responsibilities and package ownership of dovecot is transferring at the same 
time. The new (yet to be determined) package maintainer for dovecot will need to 
pick up the ball on this issue."

However that 'someone else' has yet to pick up any ball, so the package has 
remained unchanged since 0.99.

One of the users has kindly updated the rpm spec file and patches for dovecot, 
but so far no response nor update from Redhat has been forthcoming.

If other people feel inclined to do something then please add supportive 
comments to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=170960 - maybe 
someone at Redhat will hear if enough people ask   ;-)

reuben