On 03/21/2014 06:34 PM, Daniel Reynolds wrote:
Hello,
As the subject says, where can I find a stable PPA of Dovecot v2.2 for Ubuntu 12.04?
I found this https://launchpad.net/~kokelnet/+archive/dovecot22, but the description says, "...I declare them as unstable."
For obvious reasons, I don't want to use this.
What should I do?
Thanks,
Daniel Try to take a look at https://build.opensuse.org/project/repository_state/home:sbosch:dovecot-2.2/... as linked from http://wiki2.dovecot.org/PrebuiltBinaries#Ubuntu
These are automatically built packages and are designated as unstable. This refers to the fact that new packages are built automatically when new commits are added to the source code repository. If a new commit introduced a bug, then the new binary package will be buggy. What you can do is to just try it and see if it works well in your configuration, and then put the packages on hold and don't just upgrade them. You can test new builds in a test environment.
Sometimes "unstable" should be read as "potentially unstable but not necessarily". There need not be anything inherently dangerous in a particular build of the packages, it's more about a convenient channel of distribution which you seem to be lacking, for dovecot 2.2.