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Re: Official Exim 4 package



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On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 07:26:50AM -0600, Jamin W. Collins wrote:
> > The Debian packaging system only understands progress and not
> > necissarily the ramifications of such.  This could very easily be
> > fixed and allow for multiple versions of the same package in a
> > particular tree if the packaging tools would ask the user which
> > version they meant, and whichever version the packager recommends
> > using could be the default option.  All this would take is adding a
> > single, optional flag for "default version."
> 
> I'm not convinced that this alone would be enough.  It may work well,
> provided there are only 2 versions of the package, but what happens
> when/if a third is needed for some reason?

You'd have to give an example of why it wouldn't work with more
packages...

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