RFC: remove dovecot-postfix from lucid

[Scott Kitterman]

"Mathias Gug" <mathiaz at ubuntu.com> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>During the Jaunty release cycle the dovecot-postfix package was created in
>order to make it easier to integrate dovecot and postfix. The solution chosen
>was to not modify the default dovecot configuration file and instead generate a
>dovecot-postfix.conf with the correct options. The init script was also
>modified to use the new dovecot-postfix.conf file (if available) instead of the
>default configuration file.
>
>While the goal is worthwhile the implementation seems to not be the best
>option. Using an alternate configuration file breaks a lot of common knowledge
>to the point that an upstream developer filed a bug [1] with a patch to dovecot
>to provide additional checks specific to Ubuntu.
>
>[1]: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dovecot/+bug/511295
>
>Given the LTS status of Lucid I'd suggest to drop the dovecot-postfix package
>in order to avoid carrying a non-default/Ubuntu-specific configuration file
>around for 5 years.
>
>What needs to be done is to update dovecot init script to not look for
>dovecot-postfix.conf and migrate an existing dovecot-postfix.conf to
>dovecot.conf in the maintainer scripts.
>.
>I still think the objective is worthwhile and we should spend some time at the
>next UDS to come up with a better implementation.
> 
This is a complete over reaction. 

There is a relatively minor bug with a fix provided.  Let's fix the bug and move on.  This approach has a year of good user experience behind it. I'm completely against removal with no replacement. 

I think having a better way for Maverick is great, but not losing this capability in the mean time. 

Scott K