Debian packages of cyrus 2.3 series

[Benjamin Seidenberg]

Bron Gondwana wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was wondering if anyone is looking at packaging the 2.3 series of Cyrus for Debian?
>   

It has been packaged and is currently in experimental.

> It has been considered "stable" for the past few revisions (since 2.3.7 I think, which
> I would agree with - the patches I've been pushing since then have been less "critical")
>   

I was not aware it was considered stable yet. However, the debian
packages still need a bit more attention before they can leave
experimental. Sadly, many members on the team haven't had much time to
work on it lately.

> I also have this very nice set of skiplist robustifying patches I'm pushing to everyone
> who will listen to me right now :)  We've been having occasional skiplist issues for all
> the time I've been with FastMail, and it's only this weekend that I've finally sat down
> and come to terms with the code enough to fix them!
>   
Feel free to submit them to the Debian bug tracking system.
> Every so often I do talk about becoming a Debian developer, but never seem to quite make
> the time... I maintain a pile of packages (backports and locally patched things) for our
> own infrastructure, but they're in various states of "just make it work for us" that
> doesn't necessarily match the FHS.  I'd certainly be happy to help out with packaging
> and testing for the packages we use.  (Cyrus we'll never be using vanilla upstream I
> don't think.  Even now my patches series is 20 items long, and I got lots of stuff
> into 2.3.10!)
>   
Feel free to test and report bugs against both the 2.2 and 2.3 packages.

> Regards,
>
> Bron.  ( http://cyrus.brong.fastmail.fm/ )
>   


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