debian/rules questions and my plans for dual-build.

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Sat, 06 May 2006, Ondrej Sury wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-05-05 at 17:52 -0400, Benjamin Seidenberg wrote:
> > Currently, we have --with-idle set to "poll", using poll for idle
> > support. Many people perfer idled, hence the idled branch. However, for
> > people who want this, they currently have to build their own package.
> > What we want to do is make a package (maybe cyrus-imapd-idled-2.2? Name
> > suggestions welcome.) that will conflict with cyrus-imapd-2.2 that
> > replaces it with a version of imapd that is compiled for idled support
> > (and idled itself, obviously). I want to go about it like this (roughly):
> 
> Eh, that seems to be crazy (package-management-wise)... maybe we could
> just write patch to support runtime configuration of poll vs. idled?
> Has anyone ever thought about this possibility? (hmh?)

Yes, it was on my TODO ages ago.  It is doable, and upstream would accept it
if it is done right...

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