Upcoming emergency updates of cyrus21*, cyrus22*, cyrus-imapd

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh hmh at debian.org
Thu Jan 19 13:37:46 UTC 2006


Attached patches for the cyrus21-imapd uploads to unstable and stable,
upload ongoing.

Cyrus21-imapd is still in Alioth CVS, so I branched sarge there.  Just a
reminder for everyone :-)

-- 
  "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh
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PatchSet 1932 
Date: 2006/01/19 11:01:14
Author: hmh
Branch: HEAD
Tag: debian_version_2_1_18-3 
Log:
Warn of #339073

Members: 
	debian/UPGRADE.Debian:1.15->1.16 
	debian/changelog:1.315->1.316 

Index: debian/cyrus21-imapd/debian/UPGRADE.Debian
diff -u debian/cyrus21-imapd/debian/UPGRADE.Debian:1.15 debian/cyrus21-imapd/debian/UPGRADE.Debian:1.16
--- debian/cyrus21-imapd/debian/UPGRADE.Debian:1.15	Tue Nov 23 10:35:35 2004
+++ debian/cyrus21-imapd/debian/UPGRADE.Debian	Thu Jan 19 11:01:14 2006
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Upgrading cyrus-imapd to cyrus2-imapd on Debian
-$Id: UPGRADE.Debian,v 1.15 2004-11-23 12:35:35 hmh Exp $
+$Id: UPGRADE.Debian,v 1.16 2006-01-19 13:01:14 hmh Exp $
 (thanks to David D. Kilzer <ddkilzer at theracingworld.com> for this document)
 -----------------------------------------------
 
@@ -39,8 +39,29 @@
 
  3. Remove the old cyrus packages.
 
+    ######################################################################
+    WARNING  WARNING  WARNING  WARNING  WARNING  WARNING  WARNING  WARNING
+    ######################################################################
+    
+    Some versions of the cyrus-imapd packages, with versions 1.5.19-9.10
+    up to 1.5.19-20 (shipped in Debian Sarge 3.1r1) will entirely erase
+    the mail spool when purged with no questions asked.
+    
+    You must NOT purge these packages before moving /var/lib/cyrus and
+    /var/spool/cyrus to somewhere safe.  Failure to do so will cause data
+    loss.
+    
+    # mv /var/lib/cyrus /var/lib/old-cyrus
+    # mv /var/spool/cyrus /var/spool/old-cyrus
+
+    The cyrus-imapd packages in Woody (1.5.19-9.2) are safe, as well as
+    the fixed cyrus-imapd packages 1.5.19-20.1 which should make it to
+    Debian Sarge 3.1r2.
+
+    ######################################################################
+
     # apt-get --purge remove cyrus-common cyrus-admin cyrus-imapd cyrus-pop3d \
-      cyrus-nntpd
+      cyrus-nntpd   [BUT SEE THE ABOVE WARNING FIRST!!!]
 
     or use dselect/aptitude/synaptic/your favorite deb management tool.
 
Index: debian/cyrus21-imapd/debian/changelog
diff -u debian/cyrus21-imapd/debian/changelog:1.315 debian/cyrus21-imapd/debian/changelog:1.316
--- debian/cyrus21-imapd/debian/changelog:1.315	Tue Oct  4 12:17:15 2005
+++ debian/cyrus21-imapd/debian/changelog	Thu Jan 19 11:01:14 2006
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+cyrus21-imapd (2.1.18-3) unstable; urgency=high
+
+  * UPGRADE.Debian: warn of dangerous problem in cyrus-imapd from sarge,
+    which would cause data loss when UPGRADE.Debian instructions were
+    followed (closes: #348186)
+
+ -- Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh at debian.org>  Thu, 19 Jan 2006 10:49:38 -0200
+
 cyrus21-imapd (2.1.18-2) unstable; urgency=low
 
   * Add -a option to lmtpd proxy (murder cluster), patch from Luke Kenneth
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PatchSet 1933 
Date: 2006/01/19 11:26:41
Author: hmh
Branch: sarge-branch
Tag: (none) 
Log:
Warn of #339073

Members: 
	debian/UPGRADE.Debian:1.15->1.15.2.1 
	debian/changelog:1.307->1.307.2.1 

Index: debian/cyrus21-imapd/debian/UPGRADE.Debian
diff -u debian/cyrus21-imapd/debian/UPGRADE.Debian:1.15 debian/cyrus21-imapd/debian/UPGRADE.Debian:1.15.2.1
--- debian/cyrus21-imapd/debian/UPGRADE.Debian:1.15	Tue Nov 23 10:35:35 2004
+++ debian/cyrus21-imapd/debian/UPGRADE.Debian	Thu Jan 19 11:26:41 2006
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Upgrading cyrus-imapd to cyrus2-imapd on Debian
-$Id: UPGRADE.Debian,v 1.15 2004-11-23 12:35:35 hmh Exp $
+$Id: UPGRADE.Debian,v 1.15.2.1 2006-01-19 13:26:41 hmh Exp $
 (thanks to David D. Kilzer <ddkilzer at theracingworld.com> for this document)
 -----------------------------------------------
 
@@ -39,8 +39,29 @@
 
  3. Remove the old cyrus packages.
 
+    ######################################################################
+    WARNING  WARNING  WARNING  WARNING  WARNING  WARNING  WARNING  WARNING
+    ######################################################################
+    
+    Some versions of the cyrus-imapd packages, with versions 1.5.19-9.10
+    up to 1.5.19-20 (shipped in Debian Sarge 3.1r1) will entirely erase
+    the mail spool when purged with no questions asked.
+    
+    You must NOT purge these packages before moving /var/lib/cyrus and
+    /var/spool/cyrus to somewhere safe.  Failure to do so will cause data
+    loss.
+    
+    # mv /var/lib/cyrus /var/lib/old-cyrus
+    # mv /var/spool/cyrus /var/spool/old-cyrus
+
+    The cyrus-imapd packages in Woody (1.5.19-9.2) are safe, as well as
+    the fixed cyrus-imapd packages 1.5.19-20.1 which should make it to
+    Debian Sarge 3.1r2.
+
+    ######################################################################
+
     # apt-get --purge remove cyrus-common cyrus-admin cyrus-imapd cyrus-pop3d \
-      cyrus-nntpd
+      cyrus-nntpd   [BUT SEE THE ABOVE WARNING FIRST!!!]
 
     or use dselect/aptitude/synaptic/your favorite deb management tool.
 
Index: debian/cyrus21-imapd/debian/changelog
diff -u debian/cyrus21-imapd/debian/changelog:1.307 debian/cyrus21-imapd/debian/changelog:1.307.2.1
--- debian/cyrus21-imapd/debian/changelog:1.307	Thu Mar  3 12:12:58 2005
+++ debian/cyrus21-imapd/debian/changelog	Thu Jan 19 11:26:41 2006
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+cyrus21-imapd (2.1.18-2sarge1) stable; urgency=high
+
+  * UPGRADE.Debian: warn of dangerous problem in cyrus-imapd 1.5.19-20,
+    shipped in Debian Sarge 3.1r1 and r0, which would cause data loss when
+    UPGRADE.Debian instructions were followed (closes: #348186)
+
+ -- Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh at debian.org>  Thu, 19 Jan 2006 11:12:13 -0200
+
 cyrus21-imapd (2.1.18-1) unstable; urgency=high
 
   * New upstream source:
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PatchSet 1934 
Date: 2006/01/19 11:36:10
Author: hmh
Branch: sarge-branch
Tag: debian_version_2_1_18-2sarge1 
Log:
oops, fix version numbering

Members: 
	debian/UPGRADE.Debian:1.15.2.1->1.15.2.2 

Index: debian/cyrus21-imapd/debian/UPGRADE.Debian
diff -u debian/cyrus21-imapd/debian/UPGRADE.Debian:1.15.2.1 debian/cyrus21-imapd/debian/UPGRADE.Debian:1.15.2.2
--- debian/cyrus21-imapd/debian/UPGRADE.Debian:1.15.2.1	Thu Jan 19 11:26:41 2006
+++ debian/cyrus21-imapd/debian/UPGRADE.Debian	Thu Jan 19 11:36:10 2006
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Upgrading cyrus-imapd to cyrus2-imapd on Debian
-$Id: UPGRADE.Debian,v 1.15.2.1 2006-01-19 13:26:41 hmh Exp $
+$Id: UPGRADE.Debian,v 1.15.2.2 2006-01-19 13:36:10 hmh Exp $
 (thanks to David D. Kilzer <ddkilzer at theracingworld.com> for this document)
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@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@
     # mv /var/spool/cyrus /var/spool/old-cyrus
 
     The cyrus-imapd packages in Woody (1.5.19-9.2) are safe, as well as
-    the fixed cyrus-imapd packages 1.5.19-20.1 which should make it to
+    the fixed cyrus-imapd packages 1.5.19-20sarge1 which should make it to
     Debian Sarge 3.1r2.
 
     ######################################################################


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