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From: Chris White <chriswhite@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: security@g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] mail-mta courier splitup/metapackage request
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 04:40:46
Message-Id: 4109D037.1040702@gentoo.org
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4 There was a recent security issue with the sqwebmail portion of
5 mail-mta/courier. Courier is actually a combination of packages
6 (maildrop/sqwebmail/courier-imap) that function together as one. 2 of
7 these (maildrop and courier-imap) are already in the tree. It's my
8 opinion that sqwebmail should be avaliable as a seperate package for
9 users. The stabilazation option for the particular sqwebmail bug
10 (source: Bug #58020) was to stable mark a beta package with more
11 features than I think is necessary for stable marking. Sqwebmail
12 being a seperate package would have made this easier. The solutions
13 to this would be:
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15 make sqwebmail seperate and:
16 ~ a) remove courier
17 ~ b) keep courier
18 ~ c) make courier a metapackage (sort of like the way kde does things)
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20 Option c would be the harder of the 3, as I believe maildrop would
21 have to have its deps adjusted.
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23 Yes, I will test and maintain this should that issue come up. Please
24 offer any suggestions you may have, and thanks ahead of time!
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27 Chris White <chriswhite@g.o>
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30 ChrisWhite @ irc.freenode.net
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