Hi. On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 01:00:24PM -0400, Michael Grant wrote: > V2.1.14 has been around for about a month. What's surprising is that > on the tracker web page, usually there's an 'action needed' with a 'A > new upstream version is available...' but not here. Is something > broken there? Who do I tell?
Debian source for the package can provide so-called "watch" file that's used exactly for the purpose of notifying the maintainer of new upstream version. Debian's dovecot provides such file, and it's deliberately locked at version 2.3: https://dovecot.org/releases/2.3/dovecot-([\.0-9]+)\.tar\.gz So no, it's unlikely that something in dovecot packaging is broken. > Is this 'action needed' something that is updated manually? Given the current state of the watch file - no. Currently Debian is in the state of package freeze (preparing for the release of the bullseye), so uploads to the sid are discouraged (or outright forbidden, I forgot which phase of the freeze Debian is currently in), unless they fix RC bugs. And I see no such bugs for dovecot - [2]. > I coulnd't easily find the debian maintainer to pass this on. [1] shows me at least 4 possible maintainer contacts. > Suggestions? or should I just ignore it and eventually someone will > get to it? If it really bothers you - file a bug report with "wishlist" priority. At the very least you'll get an explanation from one of the maintainers. Reco [1] https://packages.debian.org/sid/dovecot-core [2] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?package=dovecot
