Re: courier will be missing in the next stable version of Debian and Devuan

>> If something is not done, courier will be missing in the next stable
>> version of Debian and Devuan. I know this will not be of interest to>> a certain part of you. But I think that even if you do not use>> Debian, Devuan or derived, this is bad because the number of courier>> users and installations will be reduced if it is no longer easily>> installed from the official repositories.> > When looking at https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/courier I see some minor> issues about dependencies. The main issue would be probably to update> to a more recent version (which would fix the dependency on pcre3),> that could be more or less complicated.> > Note: I did some fixes to the courier Debian packages some years ago,> but I have no special rights.
Hello
The deletion of the Courier in Debian is due to: depends on obsolete pcre3 library, obsolete Build-Depends: libidn11-dev with libidn-dev, FTBFS: configure: error: must specify --with-locking-method option, all soluctionable packaging a more modern version of Courier. The real reason behind these errors and the deletion is years without anyone having and packages new versions in Debian, said with my greatest thanks to all the people who at some point has dedicated time to Courier.
I am spending time to Courier deb packaging, not because I am the best person to do it, because there are many more people who know a lot than and could do better, but because nobody is doing it.
Best regards

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