Re: attn: bogofilter users
On Monday 30 September 2002 09:23, Clint Adams wrote:
> > Don't you think it would be more appropriate to warn about this in
> > the maintainer scripts? I mean - it is unstable, but still I would
> > not expect an upgraded package to break any part of my mail system.
> > Even less that the maintainer knows about the proble...
>
> I don't think an interactive preinst is appropriate, people get upset
> about debconf notes, and warning anywhere after the binary is unpacked
> is too late. Do you have a better way?
bogofilter2 (or whatever) like most of the other packages do when they
completely break things?
We are all thinking about this today. What happens in 6 months, a year, when
a user from stable upgrades and loses their filtering software?
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