[arch-general] dovecot.conf moved to dovecot.pacsave - why?

[Oon-Ee Ng]

On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 7:51 AM, David C. Rankin
<drankinatty at suddenlinkmail.com> wrote:
> All,
>
>  Why does the new dovecot package move the dovecot.conf to
> dovecot.conf.pacsave? The same 2.0 configuration works with 2.1, why leave the
> user without any dovecot.conf at all?
>
> [2012-02-27 15:17] warning: /etc/ssl/dovecot-openssl.cnf saved as
> /etc/ssl/dovecot-openssl.cnf.pacsave
> [2012-02-27 15:17] warning: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf saved as
> /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf.pacsave
> [2012-02-27 15:17] upgraded dovecot (2.0.18-1 -> 2.1.1-3)
>
>  Why not a just a warning that:
>
> warning: basic configuration options have been updated, see:
> http://wiki2.dovecot.org/BasicConfiguration
>
> --
> David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

Was just coming here to ask similar. As far as I can understand, this
is so the user can use their own (unaffected by upgrades)
dovecot.conf, but we have /etc/dovecot/local.conf which is by default
enabled in the stock dovecot.conf anyway for that.