On 12/11/2016 03:12 AM, Mark Constable wrote: > On 11/12/16 03:09, SZÉPE Viktor wrote: >> On 07/12/16 00:04, Ondřej Surý wrote: >>> I have filled RFH (Request for Help) bug on courier package, but >>> nobody responded so far. Today I have changed that to RFA (Request >>> for Adoption) and I intend to properly orphan the packages before >>> stretch release and remove them from next Debian stable release. >>> Well, unless somebody comes up and makes a hard promise to take >>> care of all Courier MTA till Debian stretch (next stable) >>> end-of-life and becomes maintainers. > > This was one of the saddest emails I have ever received. > > If my servers ran Archlinux I'd have no problem building from source, > and even maintaining a source package in AUR, but even though I am a > staunch ubuntu-server user I really don't like debs (or rpm) packaging. > > I have little choice left but to start testing postfix/dovecot :-( > > And so far I really despise what I see after becoming so comfortable > with courier. No SNI (SSL on a single IP) for a start and goodness > knows what else will be awkward to impossible to achieve compared to > the relative ease and unified sanity of the courier suite. > > And not least of all the superb effort put in by Sam, and others, on > this list to provide a level of consistent free support rarely seen > elsewhere (in my experience.) > >> I could lend a hand to the maintainer for couple of hours/month. I >> am Courier user and I am able to put together simple, lintian-free >> packages >> >> https://github.com/szepeviktor/debian-server-tools/tree/master/security/myattackers-ipsets/ipset-persistent/debian >> >> Though I've never used Debian's source/build infrastructure. > > That's very encouraging. I am less experienced with Debian packaging than > you so I'm not sure I can do much to help. It looks like [email protected] > has retired from the original Debian packages and Ondřej put in an amazing > effort to re-package the latest source to run under the "courier" user > instead of the previous "daemon" user (more in line with original source). >
Yeah I had too little time to continue with maintaining such a large package on my own. I certainly appreciate Ondřej's support and I could help out with the Debian specifics of this package. BTW: Even if you don't want to work on packaging - you could still help testing changes, Mark :-). > Some discussion on [email protected] might dig up some > more support and help determine if Ondřejs' packages could replace the > current way-to-old barely-on-life-support package set. > >> Two things: >> The package has no git source https://packages.qa.debian.org/c/courier.html >> Courier upstream has no bug-tracking system. >> >> I would choose GitHub as a place to store /debian and to communicate >> with upstream. > > Unfortunately Sam doesn't seem interested in moving his whole development > system over to Github. We could also use the existing Git infrastructure of Debian for the packaging files (https://wiki.debian.org/PackagingWithGit). Regards Racke > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Developer Access Program for Intel Xeon Phi Processors > Access to Intel Xeon Phi processor-based developer platforms. > With one year of Intel Parallel Studio XE. > Training and support from Colfax. > Order your platform today.http://sdm.link/xeonphi > _______________________________________________ > courier-users mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users > -- Ecommerce and Linux consulting + Perl and web application programming. Debian and Sympa administration. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Developer Access Program for Intel Xeon Phi Processors Access to Intel Xeon Phi processor-based developer platforms. With one year of Intel Parallel Studio XE. Training and support from Colfax. Order your platform today.http://sdm.link/xeonphi _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
