On Tuesday 22 January 2008 08:12, Soren Hansen wrote: > On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 08:34:43AM -0500, Scott Kitterman wrote: > > > If we focus on the SASL stuff for a little bit, IIRC my last > > > proposal was to make postfix's init script do something like: > > [snip] > > > > How does that look? > > > > I'm fairly certain I don't like the idea of having the init script > > edit main.cf. Perhaps some similar magic could be added to the > > dovecot postinst? > > That would require the user to have installed postfix first for this to > work. > > > Having the init mess with main.cf seems risky and fragile (I could be > > totally wrong on this, it's just a gut feel). > > Hm... My gut feels fine :)
OK. I'd say check with lamont's gut then. > > Our plan is to not bring Postfix 2.5 into Hardy as soon as it's > > released, but to wait for this last Postfix 2.4 bug fix, upload that > > to Hardy and, after suitable testing, backport it to > > Dapper/Edgy/Feisty/Gutsy (Dapper will need a source backport due to > > libdb transition to 4.6), and then bring Postfix 2.5 into Hardy. > > > > Please hold off on any experimental changes to the Postfix package until > > Postfix 2.5 lands. > > I'm not very keen on stifling all other development just becuase we > intend to backport a new version when it eventually comes out. I also > suspect that as much testing as possible can help you get rid of your > gut problems.. :) Postfix 2.5 is at RC2 and so release should come soon. We should get one more 2.4 update very shortly after that. > The changes we're discussing here are AFAICS completely orthogonal to > the version of postfix we're doing this to. Furthermore, the changes are > (well, depending on the exact implementation details, but if we look at > what I proposed) fairly well-contained, so it shouldn't be much of a > problem yanking it out for source backports for dapper through gutsy. True, although currently a source backport is only needed for Dapper. Scott K -- ubuntu-server mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
