[Pkg-exim4-users] Exim != Exim4

Marc Haber mh+pkg-exim4-users at zugschlus.de
Tue Dec 20 07:45:50 UTC 2005


On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 01:32:27PM +0100, Christian Schmidt wrote:
> Marc Haber, 19.12.2005 (d.m.y):
> > When you upgrade woody to sarge, you end up with a new exim 3, and
> > IIRC without warning. Too lazy to verify this.
> 
> I would propose a renaming of the exim packages for future Debian
> releases:
> - get rid of exim3 (or just rename it to "exim3")
> - rename exim4 packages just to "exim" packages.

NACK. Not a good idea. Renaming a package is a nightmare. A
metapackage would be a better idea.

But first let's see what the apache folks do when apache 1 doesn't get
upstream support any more.

Greetings
Marc

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