Bug#454498: What is the status of Cyrus IMAPD?

[Duncan Gibb]

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:

BS> Help is needed, we just don't have enough time right now.

Ironically, the thing which is eating my time this weekend is a big
Cyrus 2.2/Sarge-i386 to Cyrus 2.3/Lenny-amd64 migration...

HMH> Well, give me confirmation that I can scrap every change outside of
HMH> debian/ in the 2.3 branch, and I will have one based on the
HMH> upstream tarball + separate patch with anything already in CVS by
HMH> the end of the next week...

I'm not sure that's such a good idea.  Policywise it seems good to base
our releases on the "clean" upstream tarball, but actually those
tarballs aren't really clean.  The 2.3.15 release from CMU still
contains assorted CVS cruft and a large number of generated files which
we've deliberately removed from our svn repo.

I will have a look at any missing updates and whitespace differences as
soon as I can.  The update from 2.3.14+security to 2.3.15 will require
porting a few patches we use on the Sirius builds.  I notice Simon
Matter has already done an unofficial UoA auto-* patchset for 2.3.15,
which will save some time.

HMH> But that won't help with the 2.3 migration to unstable, the upgrade
HMH> path is still missing, and help with that would be very, very
HMH> welcome.

Yes, please.


Duncan

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