[Dovecot] Dovecot Versions and Debian

[Mario Antonio]

Stefan,

In previous emails, Stephan stated:
"As the WIKI states: do *NOT* use these packages for systems that need 
to be *STABLE*! This is rebuilt every hour from repository commits from 
Timo and myself and if/when one of us commits a mistake, your setup will 
break accordingly upon upgrade. This is for testing purposes only."

My guess he is just referring to the DEB packages ...

So do you consider safe to use the source package ....?

M.A.


Stefan Förster wrote:
> * Seth Mattinen <sethm at rollernet.us>:
>   
>> Mario Antonio wrote:
>>     
>>> How do you deal with new important patches?
>>>
>>> Do you patch the source and then rebuild the packages? Is it safe or
>>> better just wait until SID release the new source?
>>>
>>>       
>> I just wait for it to show up in sid. You could also apply patches
>> yourself and rebuild, either way works.
>>     
>
> Or just grab the excellent source package provided by Stephan Bosch at
> http://xi.rename-it.nl/debian/pool/dovecot-1.2/ - e.g:
>
> aptitude -y build-dep dovecot (you only need to do that once)
> wget -t0 -c http://xi.rename-it.nl/debian/pool/dovecot-1.2/dovecot_1.2.3.orig.tar.gz \
> http://xi.rename-it.nl/debian/pool/dovecot-1.2/dovecot_1.2.3-0~auto+7.dsc \
> http://xi.rename-it.nl/debian/pool/dovecot-1.2/dovecot_1.2.3-0~auto+7.diff.gz
> dpkg-source -x dovecot_1.2.3-0~auto+7.dsc
> cd dovecot-1.2.3
> dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot
>
> Guess this is the right time for a big "Thank You, Stephan".
>
>
> Cheers
> Stefan
>
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