Changes to the kolab groupware overlay

The Kolab2 on Gentoo overlay has been restructured yesterday for an improved development process. The most recent ebuilds have now been marked "stable" within the overlay. They have been available for several weeks and there were no major bug reports. In addition to the stable ebuilds the overlay will now always provide two unstable ebuilds that represent the most recent development releases. Since these ebuilds come from the bleeding edge of the Kolab CVS they have a higher chance of being broken. But with the new structure you should always have the option to revert to the older or the stable ebuild if necessary.

Because of the switch the unstable ebuilds could be broken at the moment and bug fixing will continue next week. Just to be on the safe side you should remove the unstable flag from your package.mask for the packages dev-perl/perl-kolab and net-mail/{kolabd, kolab-resource-handlers, kolab-webadmin}.

There is still no real release date for Kolab-2.1 which is one reason for the structural change. It looks like the overlay will work on the CVS basis for a while longer.

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