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Hi release team. I opened a transition request for dovecot a couple of weeks ago, but figure it might be ignored at the moment given the state of the
freeze [1]. Apologies for the redundancy.
I'd very much like to include dovecot 2.4.1 with the trixie release. The version currently in testing is basically the same version as what's in bookworm and is barely supported upstream as it is. Supporting it for the
full lifetime of trixie will be challenging.
The earlier transition was opened because dovecot upstream releases impact dovecot-dev, which is a build-dep of dovecot-fts-xapian and dovecot-antispam. The former simply needs a binNMU, as it fully supports 2.4.1 today. The dovecot-antispam package, on the other hand, hasn't seen any commits to the upstream git repository since 2017 and hasn't seen any maintainer activity in Debian since 2018. It does not support dovecot 2.4, and IMO we should not
ship it with trixie. [2]
Note that the 32-bit build issues described in the transition request have
been fully resolved, and dovecot builds on all release architectures.
Risks associated with updating include:
* dovecot 2.4 is a major upgrade and was released early this year after
several years of upstream development. There is certainly the potential to
introduce new bugs.
* dovecot 2.4 introduces configuration file syntax changes that will cause
pain for admins during the upgrade process.
Responses to these risks:
* dovecot 2.4 will be supported by upstream for a longer period of time than
the 2.3 branch. They've already made one bug fix release (2.4.1, the
subject of this request) and will make more as needed.
* 2.3 is mature, but also not receiving signifant attention upstream. I
expect that we'd generally be on our own supporting this package during the
trixie lifetime
* The pain associated with the config file changes is unlikely to be mitigated
by avoiding this transition. We'd just be putting it off. There are no
plans to develop an automated configuration translation tool.
The proposed version is currently in experimental as 1:2.4.1+dfsg1-1~exp1 [3]. Prior to that, 2.4.0 had several revisions in experimental where various bugs were identified and squashed.
The complete debdiff is at
https://people.debian.org/~noahm/dovecot_2.4.1+dfsg1-1~exp1.debdiff
The debian/changelog diff between testing and experimental is attached.
Thanks
noah
1.
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1100698
2.
https://git.sipsolutions.net/dovecot-antispam.git/
3.
https://packages.debian.org/source/experimental/dovecot
unblock dovecot/1:2.4.1+dfsg1-1
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index b7ab4746f..606916cd8 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,76 @@
+dovecot (1:2.4.1+dfsg1-1~exp1) experimental; urgency=medium
+
+ * [18c4170] d/watch: handle suffixes in upstream release filenames
+ * [340250d] New upstream version 2.4.1+dfsg1
+ * [2fcd382] Ensure we don't try to download files from the internet during build
+ * [4497016] refresh patches
+ * [af108c1] Remove obsolete patches
+ * [0ed2624] Fix 32-bit integer rollover in tests
+ * [528f075] d/rules: remove autogenerated sources on clean
+
+ -- Noah Meyerhans <
[email protected]> Sun, 30 Mar 2025 11:48:57 -0400
+
+dovecot (1:2.4.0+dfsg1-1~exp6) experimental; urgency=medium
+
+ * [827f8b7] fix and re-enable 32-bit builds
+
+ -- Noah Meyerhans <
[email protected]> Mon, 24 Mar 2025 15:16:57 -0400
+
+dovecot (1:2.4.0+dfsg1-1~exp5) experimental; urgency=medium
+
+ * [cea2f60] d/rules: remove additional files on clean
+ * [24e625b] ci: extend the timeout for the test-build-twice job
+ * [1df7d66] Fix ABI identification