Bernd Kuhls wrote:
> Brian T Glenn wrote:
>> They aren't thoroughly tested, but I've been running on them for a 
>> little while and they seem stable. This is based on the latest RC from
>> backports.org and is built for sarge.
>>
>> deb http://debian.delink.net/ sarge-delink main
> 
> I would like to have the same for Etch.

Hi,

answering myself for the archive;-)

I used this script to build a backport of Dovecot 1.0.0-2 on Etch
and the resulting packages seem stable:

> #!/bin/sh
> rm -rf ./dovecot_compile
> mkdir ./dovecot_compile
> cd ./dovecot_compile
> wget http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/d/dovecot/dovecot_1.0.0-1.dsc
> wget http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/d/dovecot/dovecot_1.0.0.orig.tar.gz
> wget http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/d/dovecot/dovecot_1.0.0-1.diff.gz
> tar -xzvf dovecot_1.0.0.orig.tar.gz
> zcat dovecot_1.0.0-1.diff.gz | patch -p0 -E
> cd dovecot-1.0.0
> chown -R root *
> chmod +x ./debian/rules
> dpkg-buildpackage -uc -us -b

Greetings, Bernd Kuhls