See ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list and courier-users mailing list for a thread I started a while back discussing resolution of this. I'm pursuing contributions to reinstate these packages, which seem to have been deprecated/deleted for invalid reasons.
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/noble/amd64/courier-imap shows the deletion and I think this is the reason: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi- bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1000053 However, per the courier maintainer (Sam), courier was long ago ported to libpcre2 and builds just fine under 24.04 from source. Meanwhile, as a stopgap, you either build from source (per Sam: "The simplest way is to install a clean new release on a separate system, then build all deb packages on it, then copy them over to a local apt repository that apt is configured to pull from."), or install from the deleted deb by downloading the deb's manually and using dpkg -i: * If building from source, pull the authlib and unicode bz2's and follow INSTALL directions, then build main courier. Make sure to save your configs and remove ubuntu packages (apt remote / apt purge) before doing build. * If using deleted debs: wget http://launchpadlibrarian.net/708904399/courier-imap_5.0.13+1.0.16-3.2build1_amd64.deb dpkg --ignore-depends=courier-base -i courier-imap_5.0.13+1.0.16-3.2build1_amd64.deb wget http://launchpadlibrarian.net/708904405/courier-webadmin_1.0.16-3.2build1_amd64.deb dpkg --ignore-depends=courier-base -i courier-webadmin_1.0.16-3.2build1_amd64.deb ** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #1000053 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1000053 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2071662 Title: courier-imap, courier-imap-ssl, courier-pop, and courier-pop-ssl missing from Ubuntu 24.04 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/courier/+bug/2071662/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
