On Thu, Aug 28, 2025 at 03:02:45PM +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger via dovecot wrote:
Look here : https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/dovecot
dovecot 2.3 has entered pldstable and old-sec. It will receive security patches as long as oldstable lives 2026-06-10 as of https://www.debian.org/releases/ may be longer depending on LTS team.
that relates to the packages in the official debian repos
As mentioned I use the packages from dovecot.org:
https://repo.dovecot.org/ce-2.3-latest/debian/bullseye/
The EOL of these packages might be different, right?
So maybe I would have to switch over and remove the extra repo from my setup.
Yes, these packages are provided by Dovecot and may have a different support lifecycle from those provided by Debian.
In general, I'd expect the packages distributed by Dovecot to work on newer distro releases. The package manager will not remove any dependencies as long as the packages remain installed. The main concern is the case when some package from the new distro version conflicts with an older version (that is, they can't both be present on the system simultaneously). You'd likely have already run into this if you've upgraded to trixie, though. Any updates to the Dovecot packages will still be installed as expected.
I don't have any experience migrating (in either direction) between the Dovecot-provided packages and the Debian-provided packages, so if you do pursue that course, be sure to test thoroughly before going to prod.
noah (Debian Dovecot maintainer)