[Dovecot] Dovecot Versions and Debian

[Stefan Förster]

* 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