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Bug 1122676

Summary: Package dovecot-devel is not available (was explicitly dropped)
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Reporter: Robert Scheck <redhat-bugzilla>
Component: dovecotAssignee: Michal Hlavinka <mhlavink>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Frantisek Sumsal <fsumsal>
Severity: medium Docs Contact:
Priority: medium    
Version: 7.0CC: akarande, fcami, fsumsal, jbuchta, jscotka, logans, mmilata, ovasik, robert.scheck
Target Milestone: rcKeywords: FutureFeature
Target Release: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version: dovecot-2.2.10-6.el7 Doc Type: Enhancement
Doc Text:
Story Points: ---
Clone Of:
: 1339698 (view as bug list) Environment:
Last Closed: 2016-11-04 07:21:51 UTC Type: Bug
Regression: --- Mount Type: ---
Documentation: --- CRM:
Verified Versions: Category: ---
oVirt Team: --- RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team: --- Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:
Bug Depends On: 1339698    
Bug Blocks: 1203710, 1295829, 1313485    

Description Robert Scheck 2014-07-23 18:25:36 UTC 
Description of problem:
Package dovecot-devel is not available, according to the changelog it was
dropped with 1:dovecot-2.2.4-1.el7. But why?

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
dovecot-2.2.10-4.el7

How reproducible:
Everytime, see above and below.

Actual results:
Package dovecot-devel is not available

Expected results:
dovecot-devel-2.2.10-4.el7 or better ;-)

Additional info:
EPEL packages such as imaptest or 3rd-party plugins depend on this package.
Comment 10 Scott K Logan 2015-09-19 21:02:06 UTC 
This is a pretty old bug, but is still very relevant. Can we at least get an explanation as to why this happened?

Dovecot plugins can't be built without this!
Comment 19 errata-xmlrpc 2016-11-04 07:21:51 UTC 
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2016-2477.html