Bug#454498: 2.3.13 now available.

[Duncan Gibb]

Centurion Computer Technology (2005) Ltd wrote:

CCT> I am keen to implement a server with the new replication
CCT> features, so I'd like to help move this along.

I don't know why there isn't a Cyrus 2.3 package set in official Debian
yet.  Because there isn't, we've been maintaining 2.3.x packages for our
clients (and our own use) for several years - having previously built
each deployment from source.  In our internal SVN we've basically got:

  * 2.3.13 mainline from CMU
  * the debian directory from incase's cyrus23 (Debian Experimental++)
  * dpatch-ified versions of the University of Athens auto-* patches
  * assorted fixes for Murder and TLS issues (by Wes Craig and/or me)
  * tweaks so debian/rules runs autotools, and picks the right BDB

The practical upshot of which is that we should always be able to svn
export and immediately dpkg-buildpackage something deployable with zero
fuss.

It's by no means perfect and there would be more work to do to bring it
up to Debian release standards.  For example we rarely deploy on
anything more exotic than amd64 or i386, Etch or Lenny; and the build
scripts probably contain bashisms.  But I think we could make a
reasonable stab at addressing this and a handful of other Debian bugs
(#397092, #421942, #431931 == #435598, #437838, #501236).

Other people must be duplicating this effort, so can we figure out how
best to pool resources?  I'm sure we can open our repo and/or make
source snapshots available.


What help would the Debian Cyrus Team most appreciate?


Cheers


Duncan

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