On 06/11/12 07:23, Krzysztof Trybowski wrote: > Hello all, > it is strange, but Dovecot 2.x still didn't make it into Debian (not > even backports). It exists in testing, but that's still a long wait. > OTOH there are official packages built every day (referenced from the > download page). This puzzles me: why isn't there a build created from > each stable, released version of Dovecot, so that users of Debian > Stable could benefit from the new version, and run it on production > environment? Could you (I mean — the Dovecot team) provide such > packages? This wouldn't require any major amount of work, since you > already have daily builds produced. You would just have to run that > building system once per each released version and keep it available > for download. > > The reason for this is relatively simple: I'm about to implement a new > mail server, and I'd like to keep to Debian Stable while using Dovecot > 2.x. This will make future updates much easier, as I won't have to > face 1.2 -> 2.0 migration on a production system.
To wind up in Debian stable, a package has to go through a bunch of testing, and that takes a long time. So you're never going to have official packages for new software in Debian stable. That's kind of the point of stable =)