dovecot - Jun 2012 - Dovecot 2.1 stable packages for Debian?

Hello all,
it is strange, but Dovecot 2.x still didn't make it into Debian (not
even backports). It exists in testing, but that's still a long wait.
OTOH there are official packages built every day (referenced from the
download page). This puzzles me: why isn't there a build created from
each stable, released version of Dovecot, so that users of Debian
Stable could benefit from the new version, and run it on production
environment? Could you (I mean ? the Dovecot team) provide such
packages? This wouldn't require any major amount of work, since you
already have daily builds produced. You would just have to run that
building system once per each released version and keep it available
for download.

The reason for this is relatively simple: I'm about to implement a new
mail server, and I'd like to keep to Debian Stable while using Dovecot
2.x. This will make future updates much easier, as I won't have to
face 1.2 -> 2.0 migration on a production system.

Regards, KT

Here you go...

cat /etc/apt/sources.list

# latest dovecot
# apt-get install debian-dovecot-auto-keyring
deb http://xi.rename-it.nl/debian/ stable-auto/dovecot-2.1 main
deb-src http://xi.rename-it.nl/debian/ stable-auto/dovecot-2.1 main


Krzysztof Trybowski wrote:
> 
> Hello all,
> it is strange, but Dovecot 2.x still didn't make it into Debian (not
> even backports). It exists in testing, but that's still a long wait.
> OTOH there are official packages built every day (referenced from the
> download page). This puzzles me: why isn't there a build created from
> each stable, released version of Dovecot, so that users of Debian
> Stable could benefit from the new version, and run it on production
> environment? Could you (I mean ? the Dovecot team) provide such
> packages? This wouldn't require any major amount of work, since you
> already have daily builds produced. You would just have to run that
> building system once per each released version and keep it available
> for download.
> 
> The reason for this is relatively simple: I'm about to implement a new
> mail server, and I'd like to keep to Debian Stable while using Dovecot
> 2.x. This will make future updates much easier, as I won't have to
> face 1.2 -> 2.0 migration on a production system.
> 
> Regards, KT
> 
> 
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On 06/11/2012 05:03 PM, Tomislav Mihalicek wrote:
> 
> Here you go...
> 
> cat /etc/apt/sources.list
> 
> # latest dovecot
> # apt-get install debian-dovecot-auto-keyring
> deb http://xi.rename-it.nl/debian/ stable-auto/dovecot-2.1 main
> deb-src http://xi.rename-it.nl/debian/ stable-auto/dovecot-2.1 main
They are not official packages. As I understand, questioner asks for
official ones. As a matter of fact - there are none for stable.

You can try to use it from testing with apt pinning and package
priorities. For example:

/etc/apt/apt.conf or /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99stable:
APT::Default-Release "stable";

/etc/apt/preferences.d/dovecot
Package: dovecot*
Pin: release a=testing
Pin-Priority: 999

and use "apt-policy show dovecot-<whatever>" to check.
Testing packages still receives a lot of changes, so it will be a little
bit annoying for frequent updates. Let me know if you choose that way
and if it works for you.
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Sincerely,
Nerijus Kislauskas

On 06/11/12 07:23, Krzysztof Trybowski wrote:
> Hello all,
> it is strange, but Dovecot 2.x still didn't make it into Debian (not
> even backports). It exists in testing, but that's still a long wait.
> OTOH there are official packages built every day (referenced from the
> download page). This puzzles me: why isn't there a build created from
> each stable, released version of Dovecot, so that users of Debian
> Stable could benefit from the new version, and run it on production
> environment? Could you (I mean ? the Dovecot team) provide such
> packages? This wouldn't require any major amount of work, since you
> already have daily builds produced. You would just have to run that
> building system once per each released version and keep it available
> for download.
> 
> The reason for this is relatively simple: I'm about to implement a new
> mail server, and I'd like to keep to Debian Stable while using Dovecot
> 2.x. This will make future updates much easier, as I won't have to
> face 1.2 -> 2.0 migration on a production system.
To wind up in Debian stable, a package has to go through a bunch of
testing, and that takes a long time. So you're never going to have
official packages for new software in Debian stable.

That's kind of the point of stable =)

11.06.2012 13:23, Krzysztof Trybowski:
> it is strange, but Dovecot 2.x still didn't make it into Debian (not
> even backports).
It seems that 2.1.7 has landed in squeeze-backports.

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Regards
  mks