Cyrus IMAP in the next Debian

[Paul van der Vlis]

Hello,

The freeze for the next version of Debian is in the next week.

Somebody has packaged Cyrus version 3.08, but there are problems with
some of the Cassandane tests.

When my information is up-to-date, Debian 10 will ship with Cyrus IMAP
2.5.11, with security support for 5 years. Many other distro's like
Ubuntu are distributing this package too.

As a sysadmin, I don't like running programs from other sources then
from my distro. I like the integration and the extra checks.

I think it would be good if there would be more contact between the
Cyrus Debian developers and the Cyrus IMAP community. If somebody here
is interested, I would like to make contact.

In Debian you have also "backports", it would be possible to make a
backport with a newer version. But this never happened in the past for
Cyrus IMAP.

With regards,
Paul van der Vlis



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