Re: Dovecot-2.3 is no longer supported

[Sad Clouds <cryintothebluesky%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Sun, 1 Feb 2026 21:47:48 +0100
Rhialto <rhialto%falu.nl@localhost> wrote:

> On Fri 30 Jan 2026 at 09:02:27 +0000, Jonathan Perkin wrote:
> > 2.3.x should stay for as long as it proves useful, and to give time for
> > people to plan and migrate their systems, either to 2.4 or to something else
> > entirely that won't break things.
> 
> I have a Debian system to update, which currently has dovecot 2.3, but I
> would like to be able to do some testing with 2.4 before I update that
> system. Debian doesn't seem to have thought of that... but with 2
> separate pkgsrc packages that becomes "trivial".
> 
> -Olaf.
> -- 
> ___ Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert                            <rhialto/at/falu.nl>
> \X/ There is no AI. There is just someone else's work.           --I. Rose

Depends on how pkgsrc integrates this. I would imagine mail/dovecot2
needs to be renamed to mail/dovecot23 and new mail/dovecot24 created
which conflicts with older package. You would need to test in chroot or
VM and then uninstall older package, as the paths would conflict.

I'm not a pkgsrc developer and have no commit rights, the question is
who is prepared to do this work? I created a local mail/dovecot24 which
seems to build on NetBSD. So anyone wants to test it and then import
into pkgsrc-current?