Re: Bug#364652: ITP: squid3 -- Internet Object Cache (WWW proxy cache) version 3
On Wed, 26 Apr 2006, Robert Collins wrote:
> Wearing my upstream hat, I'd like to see squid3 packages that *do not*
> conflict or replace squid packages in a release.
>
> Squid3 has many features that are simply not available to squid 2.5, and
> I think parallel installs are really quite reasonable. After we release,
> there will probably be people that want to stay with 2.5 for a while
> anyway, and having a transition period is not harmful IMO.
That's best practice for most mission-critical stuff, and squid certainly
qualifies. I am for a squid3 package as well (and NOT squid-experimental,
that just asks for a renaming after squid3 goes gold). If it is not good
enough for use yet, upload it to experimental instead of to unstable.
--
"One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
Henrique Holschuh
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