Bug#776094: dovecot-imapd: corrupts mailbox after trying to retrieve it (fwd)

[Reindl Harald]

Am 20.02.2015 um 15:03 schrieb Charles Marcus:
> On 2/19/2015 4:34 PM, Santiago Vila <sanvila at unex.es> wrote:
>> In such case we would love to know what is the commit that fixed this,
>> so that we can apply it to the 2.2.13 version in Debian. We have
>> frozen the distribution as we are about to release jessie as Debian 8,
>> so no new upstream releases are allowed anymore.
>
> I have NEVER understood the rationale for doing this for MINOR release.
>
> Major releases/updates, sure, I understand completely, but minor
> releases? It is far too much pain for far too little gain imnsho...

that's a political decision to not break workarounds because someone 
removes a bug you worked around or even not break stupid software rely 
on the bahvior of bugs :-)

and to make web-developers lifes harder because params in PHP which help 
to prepare upgrade to >= 5.4 and are present for many years in 5.3.x are 
not available on Debian systems

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