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

[Xavier Bestel]

Le dimanche 11 octobre 2009 à 14:54 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh a
écrit :
> 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 2.3.8 is obsolete.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.

I already tried it, it works very well and I intend to use that. However
I realized upgrading Cyrus will also for me to upgrade Exim3 to Exim4,
so for now I'm reading a bit about Exim.

Thanks,
	Xav