Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic) packages now available
Hi!
We are excited to announce that we are now providing packages for Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic). Please find instructions on how to use them at https://repo.dovecot.org/
Aki Tuomi Open-Xchange Oy
They are very welcome, especially as Bionic provides only dovecot 2.2.
Thank you :-)
Le 23 nov. 2018 à 13:44, Aki Tuomi aki.tuomi@open-xchange.com a écrit :
Hi!
We are excited to announce that we are now providing packages for Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic). Please find instructions on how to use them at https://repo.dovecot.org/
Aki Tuomi Open-Xchange Oy
W dniu 23/11/2018 o 12:44, Aki Tuomi pisze:
Please find instructions on how to use them at https://repo.dovecot.org/
Thank you. I was always interested why those packages cannot be in upstream, but people maintain their own repositories for them.
Is it too slow-moving to get a pkg into upstream or it is in upstream already, but not up to date? Other reasons?
Just curiosity, as I'll be in similar position soon, trying to maintain own package.
Best regards, Chris Narkiewicz
Hello Dovecot-List,
so Ubuntu users now can get the latest dovecot version. As I am just building a production mailserver for customers, this could come in handy, maybe. For a live production system, is it reasonable to switch from the main Ubuntu Dovecot release to your newer packages? How long will the Dovecot team build these packages? When the team don't want to build these packages anymore, how difficult will it be to switch back to the Ubuntu maintained versions?
Michael
Le 25 nov. 2018 à 19:25, Michael Ludwig frozenyoghurt2010@gmail.com a écrit :
Hello Dovecot-List,
so Ubuntu users now can get the latest dovecot version. As I am just building a production mailserver for customers, this could come in handy, maybe. For a live production system, is it reasonable to switch from the main Ubuntu Dovecot release to your newer packages? How long will the Dovecot team build these packages? When the team don't want to build these packages anymore, how difficult will it be to switch back to the Ubuntu maintained versions?
I did the switch from mainstream to dovecot repo to upgrade from 2.2 to 2.3 on xenial, and appart one or two minor configurations changes, it worked just fine.
And more recently, I switched from a bionic-backport of cosmic release (used to get 2.3 on bionic) to this just released version using apt and it was transparent.
In my case, switching back to mainstream on the other hand would be harder, as I now rely on 2.3 specific features.
So I guess as long as you don't use features that are not yet released upstream, switching back should not be difficult.
Hi Jean-Daniel,
thanks a lot for your answer. Think for the first time I will stick to the default ubuntu version and see how these packages will progress in the future.
Michael
Am Mo., 26. Nov. 2018 um 09:46 Uhr schrieb Jean-Daniel Dupas < jddupas@xooloo.com>:
Le 25 nov. 2018 à 19:25, Michael Ludwig frozenyoghurt2010@gmail.com a écrit :
Hello Dovecot-List,
so Ubuntu users now can get the latest dovecot version. As I am just building a production mailserver for customers, this could come in handy, maybe. For a live production system, is it reasonable to switch from the main Ubuntu Dovecot release to your newer packages? How long will the Dovecot team build these packages? When the team don't want to build these packages anymore, how difficult will it be to switch back to the Ubuntu maintained versions?
I did the switch from mainstream to dovecot repo to upgrade from 2.2 to 2.3 on xenial, and appart one or two minor configurations changes, it worked just fine.
And more recently, I switched from a bionic-backport of cosmic release (used to get 2.3 on bionic) to this just released version using apt and it was transparent.
In my case, switching back to mainstream on the other hand would be harder, as I now rely on 2.3 specific features.
So I guess as long as you don't use features that are not yet released upstream, switching back should not be difficult.
Am 25.11.18 um 13:18 schrieb Chris Narkiewicz:
W dniu 23/11/2018 o 12:44, Aki Tuomi pisze:
Please find instructions on how to use them at https://repo.dovecot.org/
Thank you. I was always interested why those packages cannot be in upstream
Is it too slow-moving to get a pkg into upstream or it is in upstream already, but not up to date? Other reasons?
Upstream, i.e. Ubuntu, only does securtiy updates, not feature updates, within a release.
PS: Recently, they mixed both when upping ghostscript, a script of mine broke in the process, when ps2ascii output changed - without warning - to the better ;)
-- peter
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Aki Tuomi
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Chris Narkiewicz
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Jean-Daniel
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Jean-Daniel Dupas
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Michael Ludwig
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Peter Chiochetti