[Pkg-Cyrus-imapd-Debian-devel] createonpost and autocreatemailbox patch

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Etienne Goyer wrote:
> Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > On Fri, 12 Aug 2005, Etienne Goyer wrote:
> > 
> >>One very useful feature of the package originally from simon Matter is
> >>the inclusion of the autocreate patch.  It add a few configuration
> > 
> > autocreate bugs are known to be very insiduous to debug, and they maskarade
> > as non-patched Cyrus bugs :(  I am not against using the autocreate patch,
> > but I would prefer that we either don't have it at first, or that we somehow
> > build cyrus twice and generate one with and the other without such extra
> > patches.
> 
> Ok, I can understand that.  Hopefully, it will eventually get in, as
> it's very, very useful.  Thank you very much, I stay tuned.

Since we will be using dpatch, it is trivial to at the very least have it
easily enabled during build time, so that you could:

DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS="autocreate" dpkg-buildpackage  and get cyrus packages
with the autocreate patches applied.

But I really think we will end up with some binary packages with different
capabilities sooner or later (kerberos users could benefit from this).  It
should not be difficult to have autocreate-enabled binaries (not necessarily
in different packages) that can be selected by the local admin.

IF autocreate can be safely made to be totally quiescent (i.e. it changes no
codepaths other than adding easily-audited "is autocreate enabled" checks)
while runtime-disabled, then I will drop all my concerns about including it
by default.

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