[Discuss] Debian Advice Please

[Kent Borg]

I finally seem to have Dovecot replication working between my two e-mail 
servers——not a trivial exercise. A key step was to duplicate a Dovecot 
patch that added a "count--;" to replicator-queue.c, and build my own 
.deb files.

I downloaded the official .deb files that I am replacing and set them 
aside (to be sure I have then in case I want to revert for some reason) 
and I installed my new ones. They seem to work.

What is the best way to manage this going forward? I think I would like 
to find out about any changes to the official Debian .deb files, so I 
can download new sources and reapply this patch, if necessary.


Thanks,

-kb


P.S. Allow me to annoy people by pointing out that this is the sort of 
bug that Rust programs mostly don't have.