Bug#404446: postinst: messages misleading + very slow

[Ross Boylan]

Package: cyrus-common-2.2
Version: 2.2.13-10
Severity: minor

On upgrade, postint runs cyrus-makedirs.  The latter says

Creating cyrus control directories in /var/lib/cyrus...
Creating partition spool /var/spool/cyrus/mail...
Creating partition spool /var/spool/cyrus/news...
Trying to optimize Cyrus partitions, edit /etc/default/cyrus2.2 to disable...

The "creating parition spool" messages are inaccurate in cases where
the spools already exist, and they give the impression that the
existing spools are being replaced.  Fortunately, they are not.

Second, after the cyrus/mail message I always get a very long pause.
I guess it's doing something over my large IMAP store.  If this step
could be skipped, it would save a lot of time.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (990, 'stable'), (50, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-3-686
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages cyrus-common-2.2 depends on:
ii  adduser         3.100                    Add and remove users and groups
ii  debconf [debcon 1.5.8                    Debian configuration management sy
ii  dpkg            1.13.24                  package maintenance system for Deb
ii  exim4-daemon-he 4.63-11                  exim MTA (v4) daemon with extended
ii  gawk            1:3.1.5.dfsg-4           GNU awk, a pattern scanning and pr
ii  libc6           2.3.6.ds1-8              GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdb4.2        4.2.52+dfsg-1            Berkeley v4.2 Database Libraries [
ii  libsasl2-2      2.1.22.dfsg1-8           Authentication abstraction library
ii  libsnmp9        5.2.3-4                  NET SNMP (Simple Network Managemen
ii  libssl0.9.8     0.9.8c-4                 SSL shared libraries
ii  libwrap0        7.6.dbs-11               Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra
ii  libzephyr3      2.1.20010518.SNAPSHOT-17 The original "Instant Message" sys
ii  netbase         4.27                     Basic TCP/IP networking system
ii  perl            5.8.8-7                  Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 

Versions of packages cyrus-common-2.2 recommends:
ii  cyrus-admin-2.2               2.2.13-10  Cyrus mail system (administration 
ii  cyrus-imapd-2.2               2.2.13-10  Cyrus mail system (IMAP support)

-- debconf information:
  cyrus-common-2.2/warnbackendchange:
  cyrus-common-2.2/removespools: false