Notes Oct 1st

Bron Gondwana brong at fastmailteam.com
Tue Oct 2 13:23:19 EDT 2018


That's excellent Matt. Do let us (Cyrus upstream team) know if there's anything we can do to help you with taking on packaging. 
 
Cheers, 
 
Bron. 
 
On Tue, Oct 2, 2018, at 12:02, Matt via Cyrus-devel wrote: 
> On 02/10/18 14:16, Ondřej Surý wrote: 
> > Hi, 
> > 
> > On Mon, Oct 1, 2018, at 16:18, Bron Gondwana wrote:  
> >> ellie:  
> >> * Cyrus is no longer being packaged directly by Debian  
> >> - we should look at how we want to distribute Cyrus for Debian users -  
> >> nightly builds? Releases?  
> > I am sorry for my lack of time after I changed jobs. Today, I finally moved 
> > the Debian packaging git repositories to Debian GitLab instance and I can 
> > help other people to get involved in packaging Cyrus IMAP and Cyrus SASL 
> > in Debian. 
> > 
> > The repositories are here: 
> > 
> > https://salsa.debian.org/debian/cyrus-imapd 
> > https://salsa.debian.org/debian/cyrus-sasl2 
> > 
> > Max Kosmach has already volunteer to fix the cyrus-imapd in Debian stable 
> > and I can mentor and sponsor other people to move the packaging forward. 
> > 
> > Unfortunately, I am busy elsewhere to continue with the main bulk of packaging 
> > Cyrus IMAP and SASL in Debian. Also it's not just "take whatever upstream has" 
> > due tu past legacy and upgrade paths between Debian stable releases. 
> Hi Ondřej, 
>  
> I have been using Cyrus for almost a decade, and Debian since 1994. I 
> run a few Cyrus servers, albeit not using all the features. I have done 
> Debian packaging before (for work projects not for Debian itself though) 
> so I know my way around a bit but I'm not completely up to speed on some 
> of the newer packaging features. 
>  
> I'm willing to help with packaging, coding, testing, documenting, etc. 
>  
> Matt 
>  
 
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