Bug#454498: cyrus-imapd-2.3: just for information, the current package doesn't build anymore

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Fri, 09 Oct 2009, Xavier Bestel wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-10-09 at 10:48 +0100, Duncan Gibb wrote:
> > Xavier Bestel wrote:
> > 
> > XB> just FYI, I tried building cyrus-imapd-2.3 today (because the binary
> > package
> > XB> depends on libdb4.4 which doesn't exists).
> > 
> > XB> /home/xav/cyrus/cyrus-imapd-2.3-2.3.8/sieve
> > 
> > 2.3.8 is obsolete.  Try 2.3.14 from
> > 
> > svn export
> > https://mail.incase.de/svn/cyrus22/branches/cyrus23/cyrus-imapd-2.3-development/
> > 
> > Tested best with libdb 4.7 (Lenny-Backports).  Not yet tested with 4.8.
> > 
> > 
> > XB> We're in real need of an updated package :)
> > 
> > Yep.  I'll merge 2.3.15 as soon as I have time.  Others are working on
> > upgrade scripts from 2.2.  Once that's done we can start some
> > release-engineering branches for Sid and for Lenny-Backports so people
> > can actually use the thing ;-)
> 
> I'm actually still using cyrus 1.5, so the upgrade scripts will be of no
> use to me. Unless cyrus 2.2 already has scripts to upgrade from 1.5 ?
> Otherwise I'll do the upgrade by hand from 1.5 to 2.3.

Do yourself a favour and use imapsync from a live Cyrus 1.5 to a live Cyrus
2.3 system to do that upgrade.  There is no way in heck the on-disk upgrade
path from 1.5 has been tested in the last 6 years... the risk of it eating
your data is too high.

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  Henrique Holschuh