1. Is the use of liblockfile mandatory or just A Good Thing? (or a bad thing?)
imapd has its own locking scheme which it shares with pine but no other apps afaik. Is that ok or shall I patch it to use liblockfile? Also Ilya Ovchinnikov has sent me a patch which he claims "...fixed locking problems with imap-4" The diff for this patch is available under Bug #10749. Does the code therein satisfy Debian policy for locking? 2. Is beta software ok? I've packaged a new version of imapd, version 4.1.BETA. It is a snapshot of the upstream authors current development as of 12/31/97. It compiles more cleanly than the old one, has some bug fixes and seems to be stable in my limited testing, but as the name suggests, it is a beta version. Should I go ahead and release it anyway? 3. What is the procedure for getting the QA group to test a package? The current imapd package and the new one both work well for me but I don't have an NFS environment or anything to really test issues like locking. So I'd like the QA group to take a look. Because if there is a chance it could eat mail, I think we should just take it out of the distribution. -- Jaldhar H. Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
