[Kolab-devel] A reminder about merges to us package maintainers (OpenPKG, Suse, Gentoo, Debian etc.)

[Marcus Hüwe]

Hi,

On 2007-03-15 16:34:35 +0100, Gunnar Wrobel wrote:
> Hi fellow package maintainers,
> 
> did anyone of you ever get frustrated at patching cyrus, postfix or
> php? 
> 
yep;)

> I had to work on adapting the Kolab specific postfix-2.20 patches to
> the newer postfix-2.3.7 version yesterday since I wanted to close the
> gap to mainline Gentoo. This type of work is something I don't enjoy
> too much since I have no clue whatsoever about the postfix innards nor
> do I particularly enjoy coding C.
> 
> Since the newer postfix version needed only one last patch I actually
> gathered enough motivation to check the progress on this last patch in
> the Kolab bug tracker (https://intevation.de/roundup/kolab/merge8) and
> the postfix-* mailing lists. There was no activity on that patch
> within the last one and a half years.
> 
> And since I thought asking does not hurt I sent a mail to
> postfix-devel:
> http://archive.netbsd.se/?ml=postfix-devel&a=2007-03&m=3314372
> 
> The result: I had to correct some white space problems and the patch
> will be accepted.
> 
Great!
I think this is a step into the right direction. If the other patches (at
least the remaining cyrus-imapd patches) will be accepted upstream there
won't be a major problem to ship kolab with some distributions:) IMHO.


Marcus