Re: status of default syslog daemon for lenny
On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 03:07:20PM +0200, Luk Claes wrote:
> Marc Haber wrote:
> > On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 12:02:25PM +0200, Jonas Meurer wrote:
> >> So what's does process to change a default look like usually? Simply do
> >> a coordinated upload of both old and new default packages with inverted
> >> priorities?
> >
> > It is actually an unilateral decision of ftpmaster. When exim4 became
> > the default, the maintainer team wasn't even informed of that
> > decision, we just received an override disparity when we uploaded.
>
> Note that it's not comparable IMHO as exim was meant to go away in
> favour of exim4 anyway. I do think that exim going away was a
> maintainer's decision, though I might be wrong...
exim4 became the default years before exim 3 was removed.
Greetings
Marc
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