Package: courier-pop Version: 0.63.0-2.1 Severity: wishlist Currently, the pop daemon (and other courier daemons I suppose) are stopped for upgrade, and only restarted after an arbitrary delay.
I imagine some courier installations have a many users, and having the daemon down for a few minutes for an upgrade could be a major hassle for them. I don't; I have only a few pop users. But having the daemon taken down during an upgrade still affected me, apparently because I was unlucky and a user tried to POP at just the wrong time, and got an unexpected password prompt shown by evolution. (Strange failure mode.. perhaps evolution was at the PASS step of logging in when the pop server was killed, and so thought it rejected the stored password?) So, have you considered deferring the daemon stop until after upgrade? Ie, via dh_installinit --no-restart-on-upgrade For this to be safe, the old daemon needs to be able to continue running while courier-pop and its dependencies are upgraded. I have not checked if that is the case. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages courier-pop depends on: ii courier-base 0.63.0-2.1 Courier mail server - base system ii libc6 2.10.2-5 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii postfix [mail-transport-agent 2.6.5-3 High-performance mail transport ag courier-pop recommends no packages. Versions of packages courier-pop suggests: ii bsd-mailx [mail-re 8.1.2-0.20090911cvs-2 simple mail user agent ii courier-doc 0.63.0-2.1 Courier mail server - additional d pn courier-pop-ssl <none> (no description available) ii emacs21 [mail-read 21.4a+1-5.7 The GNU Emacs editor ii mutt [mail-reader] 1.5.20-6 text-based mailreader supporting M ii pine [mail-reader] 4.64-4 An e-mail reader with MIME and IMA -- no debconf information -- see shy jo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
