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Re: status of default syslog daemon for lenny



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...

Cheers

Luk


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