Automatic packages for Dovecot v2.3

Stephan Bosch stephan at rename-it.nl
Wed May 11 00:37:53 UTC 2016


Hi,

The Xi repository for v2.3 is now public. The information is updated here:

http://wiki2.dovecot.org/PrebuiltBinaries#Automatically_Built_Packages

Xi now modifies the version string in the Dovecot sources. This way
`dovecot -n` output includes the Xi package version. This is currently
only true for the v2.3 packages though.

I am still testing a new v2.2 builder that follows both the master and
latest release branch. Packages from the release branch are published in
a separate repository, so that a more stable package stream is obtained;
it is only updated when the developers start working on making a
release. The intermittent beta or rc release tags on that release branch
are recognized and reflected in the package versions. If a new release
branch is detected, the the development packages for the master branch
get an alpha version with a lower version digit that is one higher than
the upcoming release. For example, when a release-2.2.25 branch is
created, packages from the master branch will get version
2.2.26~alpha0-1 in anticipation of the next release in this series.
Packages from the release branch will have version 2.2.25~beta0-1 until
the first release tag is seen.

Regards,

Stephan.



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