Bug 110686

Summary:	net-mail/dovecot version bump
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Max Lorenz <meax>
Component:	[OLD] Server	Assignee:	Net-Mail Packages <net-mail+disabled>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	gregkh
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2005-October/009605.html
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Max Lorenz 2005-10-28 04:00:24 UTC

Hi,

dovecot-1.0_alpha4 was released Oct. 20th. Excerpt from changelog:
"- IMAP: We might have sent extra EXPUNGE messages when output buffer
got full. This could have caused various sorts of very bad behavior.
This is the main reason why everyone should upgrade as soon as possible."
So it might be a good idea to add this to portage, even though the 1.0 series is
hardmasked. Renaming the ebuild seems to work fine.
Thanks, Max


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1 Greg Kroah-Hartman (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-11-07 10:59:02 UTC

Why is dovecot masked off?

Comment 2 peteru 2005-11-28 01:26:16 UTC

I'd also like to know the reason for masking dovecot 1.0 versions.

The author recommends 1.0alpha releases over any previous 0.99 release. If there
are any Gentoo specific issues, please note them here - it may result in patch
submissions...

Comment 3 Roy Marples (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-12-15 00:24:18 UTC

Speaking from personal experience - alpha2 was unstable and alpha3 had memory 
issues. alpha4 was fine for me, but not on amd64 and was never put into 
portage (not sure if this was reason why). 
 
alpha5 is now in portage 
 
0.99 is still the Gentoo stable version as there have been issues with every 
alpha version of dovecot shipped to date. Hopefully that will change with 
alpha5 :)