Cyrus IMAPd packages in Debian

[Benjamin Seidenberg]

On 09/22/2010 12:39 AM, Bron Gondwana wrote:
> Hi Benjamin,
>
> I've been pointed at this:
>
> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-cyrus-imapd-debian-devel/2010-August/003427.html
>
> One of the things I'm trying to do with Cyrus 2.4 is
> making the upgrade process easier.
>
> I've already made one change that will help enormously.
> On startup, the command "ctl_cyrusdb -r" is always run
> before starting any other commands.  I've made it open
> every configured database file and check the magic
> number to determine what type the file is, then convert
> if the configuration says it should be a different type.
>
> I'm currently looking into automating BDB file upgrade,
> so you can link a newer Cyrus against a newer version
> of the Berkeley libraries and have a clean upgrade
> path.
>
> If there's anything else we can do to make packaging
> new versions of Cyrus easier for you, let me know! 
> We run Cyrus on Debian ourselves at FastMail, so we
> care about it being good there :)
>
> Regards,
>
> Bron.
>   
Sounds good, bouncing it to the list.