Package: dovecot-common Version: 1.0.rc15-2etch4 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable
I see that the upgrade which deprecates mail_extra_groups is regarded as having been fixed. However, I don't think the fix is optimal for most of us. I opted to use my old config file when upgrading as there was no clear warning not to do this, then a coincidental upgrade more recently forced a restart of dovecot which ran automatically so I didn't see the error message. Because it had been an ssh related upgrade it was a bit slow to realise it was dovecot that was refusing to run, not an access problem. However, when I did realise the console message dovecot gives just says that mail_extra_groups is deprecated which I usually take to mean "not advised but will still run". It looked from that message as if dovecot was loading so it was only when I looked in the dovecot log that I saw it was being killed by interrupt 15 (still not a very clear message). When I looked in my dovecot.conf I of course still saw the old mail_extra_groups which seemed confusing but grepping the documentation in both dovecot-pop3d and dovecot-common didn't find anything about mail_extra_groups (perhaps I should have zgrep'ed, hm, OK, that gets me more but not a clear description of what to do if you chose to use your old conf file). Anyway, I've changed to mail_access_groups in my dovecot.conf and everything is fine now. However, I do recommend that the messages are changed to avoid relative lusers such as myself running into this. I would also recommend back propagating the changes as searchgin for mail_extra_ on wiki.dovecot.org found nothing. Many thanks for your work on this and sorry to cause work. Chris Evans -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-amd64 Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages dovecot-common depends on: ii add 3.102 Add and remove users and groups ii lib 2.3.6.ds1-13etch5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii lib 1.39+1.40-WIP-2006.11.14+dfsg-2etch1 common error description library ii lib 1.4.4-7etch5 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries ii lib 2.1.30-13.3 OpenLDAP libraries ii lib 5.0.32-7etch5 mysql database client library ii lib 0.79-5 Runtime support for the PAM librar ii lib 0.79-5 Pluggable Authentication Modules l ii lib 8.1.11-0etch1 PostgreSQL C client library ii lib 3.3.8-1.1 SQLite 3 shared library ii lib 0.9.8c-4etch3 SSL shared libraries ii ope 0.9.8c-4etch3 Secure Socket Layer (SSL) binary a ii zli 1:1.2.3-13 compression library - runtime dovecot-common recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
