La Salle Debain

Open Source @ Consolidated Braincells Inc.

About La Salle Debain

This is a weblog I'm keeping about my work on Debian and any other useful Debian related info I come across. It is not meant to compete with other news sources like Debian Weekly News or Debian Planet. Mostly it is just a way for me to classify and remember all the random bits of information that I have floating around me. I thought maybe by using a blog it could be of some use to others too. Btw. "I" refers to Jaldhar H. Vyas, Debian developer for over 8 years. If you want to know more about me, my home page is here.

The name? Debain is a very common misspelling of Debian and la salle de bains means bathroom in French.

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Wednesday, May 30 2012

Dovecot 2.1.7 Uploaded to Unstable

This is the latest upstream version and will, barring any unforseen circumstances, be the version in wheezy, the upcoming stable release of Debian GNU/Linux. In order to ensure it is the high quality our users have come to expect from Debian stable, I need your help.

First and foremost, please test the hell out of it. Upgrades during a stable release are in general not allowed unless the problem is security related so we need to shake all the bugs out now. I am particularly interested in knowing if there are any issues with upgrades from squeeze.

I waved my hands ineffectually at the bug list but it needs more attention. Could some kind person go through them and let me know which ones are no longer valid, need further attention etc.?

I attempted to add hardening flags but lintian still complains a lot. I think the warnings are probably false positives but I'm not a 100% sure so I would appreciate some advice from those who know more about such things.

Those are the issues that come to mind at the moment but feel free to let me know if there's something I've missed.

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