[Dovecot] Fedora Core 5 has Dovecot 0.99

[Marc Perkel]

Reuben Farrelly wrote:

> On 11/01/2006 1:56 a.m., Marc Perkel wrote:
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>> 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/ 
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> 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.
>

I don't think it would fall on deaf ears if version 1.0 were declared. I 
think this is an example where the "alpha" label or even "beta 1" would 
be a barrier. if Timo declared 1.0 then it wouldn't be an issue.