Hi,
[Following up on an older thread]
On 7/12/2005 3:59 p.m., Willem Riede wrote:
On 12/06/2005 07:21:28 AM, Reuben Farrelly wrote:
On 5/12/2005 1:18 p.m., Bernardo Innocenti wrote:
Willem Riede wrote:
Can we have dovecot 1.0 alpha4 in FC5? Even though the word alpha is
present in the version, it is quite stable, and fixes many problems
that
there are in 0.99.14. As a matter of fact, there is no upstream support
for 0.99.x. Any reports are met with 'please upgrade and your problem
will likely be over'.
Yes, please! I was waiting for Dovecot 1.0 to switch to Dovecot
from courier-imap without anyone noticing the difference.
The feature I'm missing in 0.99 is namespaces. Without this,
I'd have to reconfigure all the MUAs to change their IMAP
prefix from "INBOX" to "" (empty string).
I would like to add my +1 to this as well. Dovecot-0.99.x is arguably
just as bad if not more 'alpha' than the upcoming 1.0 releases both in
terms of bugs and of features and it seems most odd to be shipping a
package that isn't supported by the upstream developer and community.
I would also put the case that 0.99.x was more 'alpha' in it's quality
than the current releases that are actually labelled as 'alpha'.
Anyway, there is a bugzilla entry open as an RFE for it:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=170960
Perhaps that might be a good place to start adding comments, maybe if
enough people ask nicely in there and show support, it might happen
from within RH ;-)
I have added the 1.0-alpha4 spec file and the patches I successfully
used myself to run dovecot-1.0-alpha4 on fc5t1 to that bugzilla, so I
hope somebody makes use of those and upgrades dovecot in devel -
please? pretty please? :-)
Re: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=170960
dovecot-1.0-beta1 is now out and there is soon going to be a bounty paid by the
author to the first person who finds a remotely exploitable bug (if one such one
exists). See http://dovecot.org/security.html. That surely suggests that the
author feels that his "beta" code is of reputable quality and surely good enough
to replace the current and very outdated "alpha" 0.99 package we have in core
that is no longer supported upstream.
Can someone from Redhat perhaps comment a bit more - if there is a reason for
why it hasn't been upgraded please tell us, and who is actually now maintaining
it? Thanks to Willem Riede who has done the hard work and come up with an
updated specfile + patches and posted them in bugzilla, so you'd expect the
upgrade to be relatively little work for whoever takes it on.
I'm thinking of a comment in bugzilla from John Dennis where he states "I'm
being transitioned to other responsibilities and package ownership of dovecot is
transferring at the same time. The new (yet to be determined) package maintainer
for dovecot will need to pick up the ball on this issue.".
So far no-one has picked up any ball, so who actually is the new maintainer?
I'm asking because there have been no real responses from Redhat to date as to
what's going on, and there are constantly reports of users installing the old
FC/RHEL RPM's on the dovecot list and being told to install the newer version
because the version shipped in FC/RHEL is too old and not supported........
Thanks,
Reuben
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