This one time, at band camp, Robert Collins said: > On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 20:54 +0100, Stephen Gran wrote: > > This one time, at band camp, Luigi Gangitano said: > > > * Package name : squid3 > > > > > > This is the new development version, totally rewritten in C++ with the > > > latest features like ICAP added. > > > > Is a new source package really needed? Is there no sensible upgrade > > path? I had sort of hoped it could be as drop in and go as most > > upgrades are, but perhaps not. > > > > Take care, > > Squid-3 will read the same config file, and the cache directory is > compatible so there is indeed an upgrade path. Its not a total rewrite - > its a port of the squid 2.5 C source to C++, but .... > > squid 3.0 is not yet 'stable'. Squid 2.5 is still the stable series. And > we (upstream) don't maintain a single source tree - we have one tree for > 2.X and one for 3.X. I don't think it makes sense to try and make a > single source package for this. I think you definately want to allow > co-installation though. > > After 3.0 is considered stable, you could definately do a 'drop in and > go' approach. Ah, good to hear. I am looking forward to using some of the squid3 features, but I didn't want to migrate my existing configs and so forth if it was possible not to. It's also good to hear that we can just carry forward with a single squid package in the archive once things settle down. thanks very much for the info, -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : sgran@debian.org | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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