Bug#382376: cyrus-imapd-2.2: Create Debian packages for version 2.3 of Cyrus

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Thu, 24 Aug 2006, Mike Cathey wrote:
> I would really like to see 2.3 get into Etch. And ven if we can't get
> this into Etch, I'd be happy just having a package that's easily
> apt-get-able.

2.3 is NOT Debian Stable material. It is not complete, it is not safe, it is
not even remotely bug free.  And it is very unlikely that it will be any of
these things by Etch freeze time.

It is, however, good enough for "unstable" with a lot of warnings (and there
is no dobut it would be at home in "experimental"), and there is no reason
why it could not be made available for Etch via an apt-getable backport
repository.

Remeber: we can easily update backports, but we _cannot_ easily update
Debian Stable.

> I had a short dialog with Henrique about this a while ago (Dec 7, 2005)
> and I think he said he was going to wait until 2.3.4 to start working on
> this.

Yeah, but the fact is that early 2.3 is being release-managed in a way that
has not stabilized that branch at all.  So please let me revise what I said
to "after about four stable releases of the 2.3 branch", and there has been
*no* stable releases of that branch yet, IMO...

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  Henrique Holschuh