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/F...
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