[gentoo-user] Created an ebuild for Courier-Imap 4.1.0

[gentoo-user] Created an ebuild for Courier-Imap 4.1.0

[James Colannino]

Hey everyone.  I had noticed that all the ebuilds for Courier-Imap were 
extremely stale.  I thought that this was incredibly bad, so I took the 
ebuild for 4.0.4, and with absolutely no modifications whatsoever (aside 
from renaming the ebuild from 4.0.4.ebuild to 4.1.0.ebuild), it 
successfully emerged the latest version.

Should I post it on bugzilla?  If I do, what do you think is the 
likelihood that it will be included in the official portage tree?  I 
want others to be able to have access to the latest courier package and 
not just me.

James

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Re: [gentoo-user] Created an ebuild for Courier-Imap 4.1.0

[James Colannino]

I went ahead and posted the ebuild on bugzilla 
(https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=124985)  Anybody who's 
interested in it can download it from there.  Don't forget to manually 
download courier-imap-4.1.0.tar.bz2 from http://courier-mta.org/imap/ 
and run ebuild digest on it if you decide to use it.

James

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Re: [gentoo-user] Created an ebuild for Courier-Imap 4.1.0

[David Morgan]

On 13:10 Sat 11 Mar     , James Colannino wrote:
> Hey everyone.  I had noticed that all the ebuilds for Courier-Imap were 
> extremely stale.  I thought that this was incredibly bad, so I took the 
> ebuild for 4.0.4, and with absolutely no modifications whatsoever (aside 
> from renaming the ebuild from 4.0.4.ebuild to 4.1.0.ebuild), it 
> successfully emerged the latest version.
> 
> Should I post it on bugzilla?  If I do, what do you think is the 
> likelihood that it will be included in the official portage tree?  I 
> want others to be able to have access to the latest courier package and 
> not just me.
> 
> James
> 

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=124985

But then you knew that...

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[gentoo-user] Re: Created an ebuild for Courier-Imap 4.1.0

[Peter]

On Sat, 11 Mar 2006 13:28:45 -0800, James Colannino wrote:

> I went ahead and posted the ebuild on bugzilla
> (https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=124985)  Anybody who's
> interested in it can download it from there.  Don't forget to manually
> download courier-imap-4.1.0.tar.bz2 from http://courier-mta.org/imap/
> and run ebuild digest on it if you decide to use it.
> 
> James

A few notes on your bugzilla submission. 

1) The component should be Ebuild
2) After you submit the original bug, edit the Keywords field and add
EBUILD and submit again. I know, it's redundant, but that's the way it's
supposed to be done. Bugzilla should have more fields open on the original
submission page.
3) Your summary should contain a little more info, like (NEW EBUILD) or
(VERSION BUMP) along with the category the ebuild should belong too.
Something like this:

/net-mail/courier-imap-4.1.0 (VERSION BUMP)

This helps the bug wranglers properly assign the bug. You also could view
the changelog and email the maintainer privately with this request.
Something as simple as renaming an ebuild for a new version could occur
quickly.

The 3rd line, # $Header: $
needs to end with a $ after the : and space. The /var/cvsroot stuff does
not apply for new ebuilds until the maintainer publishes it.

Lastly, I notice that there are a fair amount of patches going on, and
with these you need to be very careful. The patches should be examined
against the new files and make sure they are even required. Sometimes,
simply renaming a file is insufficient.

I hope you don't mind these comments. They are designed to protect you
from the wrath of the bug wranglers who have a low tolerance threshold
sometimes for incorrectly submitted bugs. I know!

http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml?part=2&chap=1

should help you more.

Regards
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