RHEL7/CentOS7 RPM of dovecot 2.3.11.3-3 seems to have dropped tcpwrap support

[Gerald Galster]

>>>> At a guess it was removed from the spec for el8 (which does not support
>>>> tcpwrap) and somehow got removed from el7 by accident.  The ghettoforge
>>>> dovecot23 packages have tcpwrap support for el7:
> 
> So is el8 truly incompatible with tcpwrap?  Or is it just too much 
> effort to continue suport for every feature that was ever in the system?

https://access.redhat.com/solutions/3906701

"The TCP Wrappers package has been deprecated in RHEL 7 and therefore it will not be available in RHEL 8 or later RHEL releases".

> If the former, might it be reasonable for a user to change the 8's in 
> the code below to 9's?

No, because there is no tcp_wrappers/tcp_wrappers-devel package in RHEL8 anymore.

For reasons and alternatives, see: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Deprecate_TCP_wrappers

Best regards
Gerald


>>> We are looking into this, it was indeed removed from el7 by accident. RPM macros can be quite tricky sometimes.
>> 
>> I have:
>> 
>> %if 0%{?rhel} < 8
>> BuildRequires: tcp_wrappers-devel
>> %endif
>> 
>> ... then later ...
>> 
>> %if 0%{?rhel} < 8
>>    --with-libwrap		 \
>> %endif
>> 
>> 
>> Peter