Re: Help with fetchmail bug #268228
* Graham Wilson [Wed, 01 Sep 2004 22:30:15 -0500]:
> On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 05:35:01AM +0200, Adeodato Simó wrote:
> > (b) re-introduce the fetchmail-common package, make the fetchmail
> > package conflict with fetchmail-common << 6.2.5 or so and put in the
> > f-common description somethink like: "Dummy package to help
> > transition from woody. You may safely purge this package once it has
> > been installed."
> This seems like the most reasonable of all solutions. Once we release
> etch with the fetchmail-common package, I can remove it from the package
s/etch/sarge/, I assume.
> in sid. The only problem would be that upgrades from woody to etch could
> have the same issue; I don't see that as a problem, since I don't think
> we support upgrades that skip a distribution.
> > all have their pros and cons, and perhaps the original init.d one,
> > being uglier, is more robust that these ones.
> What other cons do you see with option B?
unlikely in complete upgrades but possible in manual upgrades of just
fetchmail: user with the split package, sees description stating the
new f-common is "dummy" and says: "uhm, I'll remove it and then
install the new fetchmail".
but it's a corner case (I think) and I say (b) as a good compromise.
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Adeodato Simó
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