[Dovecot] Fedora Core 5 has Dovecot 0.99

[Willem Riede]

On 01/10/2006 12:10:50 PM, Marc Perkel wrote:
> Reuben Farrelly wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> 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.

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

Regards, Willem Riede.