[Dovecot] 1.0.rc29 released

[Geert Hendrickx]

On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 07:35:40PM +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> I hate how badly the configuration file updating works everywhere  (well,
> or at least in Debian). If the changes don't really change any  existing
> settings and won't conflict with the modified parts of the  config file,
> there's no need to ask anything about merging.
> 
> Why couldn't it work by doing a diff of the old and new default  config
> files, and then try to patch the changes into the current  config. If the
> patch succeeds, that's your new config. Of course if  the new config file
> really changes existing defaults, it shouldn't do  this without asking.

I'm actually doing a "merge dovecot.conf <old-default> <new-default>" every
time, and it usually causes some conflicts due to changed comments.  They're
easy to resolve, of course, but it could be avoided.

	Geert
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