[arch-general] Shouldn't pacman restart dovecot after update?

[Ng Oon-Ee]

On Mon, 2010-08-02 at 23:00 -0500, David C. Rankin wrote:
> Guys,
> 
> 	Sending mail from my local server resulted in errors "could not copy sent mail 
> to 'sent' on servername? Checking the mail logs, I found this:
> 
> <snip>
> Aug  2 17:15:03 nirvana dovecot: imap-login: Fatal: Dovecot version mismatch: 
> Master is v1.2.12, login is v1.2.13 (if you don't care, set version_ignore=yes)
> Aug  2 17:15:03 nirvana dovecot: imap-login: Fatal: Dovecot version mismatch: 
> Master is v1.2.12, login is v1.2.13 (if you don't care, set version_ignore=yes)
> <snip>
> 
> 	So I restarted dovecot -- problem solved. That brought up the question, why 
> didn't pacman restart dovecot with some post-install something?? So should it 
> have? If it didn't, does this need to be reported?
> 
> 	Let me know. Thanks.
> 
Just because I have dovecot installed doesn't mean its running at the
point I do the update. I'd think the responsibility is with the user to
do what is necessary. In the end its up to the packager though.