[Kolab-devel] [debian] Cyrus package incomplete (was: Re: cyrus-imapd.deb: formal Version 2.4.17, in real it is 2.4.3)

[Torsten Grote]

Hi Michael,

I had a quick look at the cyrus package for Debian. It seems to be quite 
outdated even though it ships a more recent version of cyrus than the official 
Debian wheezy package.

On Monday 11 November 2013 14:04:51 Torsten Grote wrote:
> On Thursday 07 November 2013 20:58:27 Michael wrote:
> > Why not using debians default cyrus-imapd?
> 
> I ask myself the same question.

The Debian package applies a ptloader-ldap_user_attribute patch that is not 
used in the official package.

The CentOS package applies a few more patches [2].

> > I switched to debians cyrus-imapd (2.4.16) and tested a little bit. Seems
> > to be ok for me!? Should I expect any problems I haven't recognized by
> > now?

Thankfully, we have the Cyrus release manager on this list who might be able 
to answer this question.

If a dedicated cyrus package is required, we should get it fixed. If it isn't, 
we should probably remove it from the Debian repository.

I created an issue report about this:

    https://issues.kolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2523

> In my tests it seems that some cyrus utilities like cyrreconstruct are
> missing in the package. In the CentOS package, they are included.

This is for Kolab's package. Debian's package ships cyrus-common and cyrus-
admin which includes those utilities.

Kind Regards,
Torsten

[1] 
https://obs.kolabsys.com/package/view_file?expand=1&file=debian.series&package=cyrus-imapd&project=Kolab%3ADevelopment
[2] https://obs.kolabsys.com/package/view_file?expand=1&file=cyrus-imapd.spec&package=cyrus-imapd&project=Kolab%3ADevelopment

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