policy Q's WRT imapd
1. Is the use of liblockfile mandatory or just A Good Thing? (or a bad
thing?)
imapd has its own locking scheme which it shares with pine but no other
apps afaik. Is that ok or shall I patch it to use liblockfile?
Also Ilya Ovchinnikov has sent me a patch which he claims "...fixed
locking problems with imap-4" The diff for this patch is available under
Bug #10749. Does the code therein satisfy Debian policy for locking?
2. Is beta software ok?
I've packaged a new version of imapd, version 4.1.BETA. It is a snapshot
of the upstream authors current development as of 12/31/97. It compiles
more cleanly than the old one, has some bug fixes and seems to be stable
in my limited testing, but as the name suggests, it is a beta version.
Should I go ahead and release it anyway?
3. What is the procedure for getting the QA group to test a package?
The current imapd package and the new one both work well for me but I
don't have an NFS environment or anything to really test issues like
locking. So I'd like the QA group to take a look. Because if there is a
chance it could eat mail, I think we should just take it out of the
distribution.
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Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar@braincells.com>
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