Yarema wrote:

> 
> Mark, I'm not that well versed in Debian's package manager.  But isn't 
> it possible to take the configs for the "official" Debian Courier-MTA 
> package, add an RFC2045/RFC2047 patch and create your own package.  In 
> most cases that will automate the handling of new versions with just a 
> little overhead in effort.  Perhaps the Debian maintainer of the Courier 
> package would be willing to incorporate such a patch into the official 
> Debian package.


Exactly. I was, as a matter of fact, advising Mark in a private letter 
(hm, I can't recall why I didn't made it a community letter...) to 
contact the debian maintainer of courier and suggest him/her to include 
a patched version of submit in the distribution.

I deal with very much the same basic problem. It is, however, quite 
possible to maintain your own set of a debian packages and still use the 
full power of apt. This is what I do with courier-imap (what a 
coincidence, another courier component [;)] , with patches applied for 
top level folders and certain homerolled client "adaptions". I choose to 
do this because, in an overall perpective, courier-imap is simply the 
best choice for me, patched or not.

Creating your own patched package, by the way, is indeed quite easy in 
debain. Here's how it goes:

apt-get source courier-0.36.1 (this is the current version in woody)
cd courier-0.36.1
patch -p1 < <your-patch-file>
fakeroot debian/rules binary

<tomas/>


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