On Wed, 08 Jun 2016 14:20:06 +0200, Nicolas Sebrecht <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 08, 2016 at 07:08:15AM +0000, Franz Fellner wrote: > > > This might get challenging for distributions shipping live packages or > > regular git snapshots. > > I was not aware there are distros "blindy" packaging. Which ones do this? > Or, do you mean they pick versions outside the official releases?
Gentoo offers live-ebuilds (ebuilds that checkout git with every build). There is no offlineimap-live-ebuild in Gentoo main tree ATM, but at least it's possible. Arch also offers live-packages for several packages. As I don't use Arch I can't say if it offers offlineimap-git. I actually use some packages as live-ebuilds, e.g. awesome, compton, neovim, ... I closely follow development and do updates from time to time when I know a fix or a new feature I want to test has landed. But my point was: You never know what the user/distro does! So being explicit about the supported versions of offlineimap's DEPS is really important. And that patching imaplib2 could result in unwanted/undefined behaviour. _______________________________________________ OfflineIMAP-project mailing list: [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/offlineimap-project OfflineIMAP homepages: - https://github.com/OfflineIMAP - http://offlineimap.org
