Debian packages of cyrus 2.3 series

[Sven Mueller]

Bron Gondwana wrote on 13/11/2007 10:33:
> I was wondering if anyone is looking at packaging the 2.3 series of Cyrus for Debian?

Actually, we have a package mostly prepared, but noone from the 
packaging team has any time right now to finish it.

[patches]

We are quite happy to incorporate patches in addition to upstream if 
certain criteria are met. The patches need to provide fixes for existing 
problems or add a useful new feature with minimal intrusion on existing 
setups (with sufficient test of the patches before we intregrate them).

> 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!)

We would be quite glad to welcome another member in the team (especially 
if that person is able to work on the 2.3 packages). If you want to 
join, please send a pgp encrypted and signed mail to sven at debian.org 
(keyid 14D4060B) with a username & passphrase you want to use for 
initial SVN access and (optionally) an ssh public key for changing that 
passphrase. I will send you more information as needed.

As you might already have seen, we use an SVN repository on 
mail.incase.de (my host) to manage the package. For patches, we are 
using dpatch, most of us use dch to edit the changelog.

cu,
Sven