Bug#175715: ITP: mailman21 - A powerful GNU mailing list manager
On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 02:41:12PM -0400, Gleydson Mazioli da Silva wrote:
> package: wnpp
> severity: wishlist
>
> Hi all,
>
> I intent to package the new mailman 2.1 series. I've sent mail some time ago
> to Tollef asking if there was any problem in maintaining that new series, but I got no
> response (I hope that Tollef see this message :-).
>
One more email is not a bad idea.
> I'm working for a time as list master for listas.cipsga.org.br, creating
> some useful scripts to easy the list administration, backup, etc. for
> list masters.
>
> This new release has some interesting features, including VERP support,
> emergency moderation, content type filtering, multi language support, etc.
>
> I've started that packaging from scratch and I wish to include all features
> mentioned above as easy user selection for mailman installation.
>
> Initially, I've named this package as mailman21, so it will not conflict
> with the original mailman package, so the list administrator could do the
> migration without some problems. I've writed all steps to do the upgrade
> from mailman 2.0 release to 2.1 release.
>
> If no objection, I'll upload the package.
>
Uhm, what's the reason to have 2 packages for the same program?
Are there incompatible? Cannot 2.1 be run in 2.0 compatible mode?
IMHO someone should have a very solid reason to prefer separate
packaging instead of upgrading. You could probably produce a patch
to integrate your scripts in current 2.0 or propose an upgrading path
to 2.1.
--
Francesco P. Lovergine
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