[Pkg-mailman-hackers] Re: Planning for an upgrade path from etch to lenny for mailman

[Thijs Kinkhorst]

On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 11:50 +0100, Martin Schulze wrote:
> Please keep in mind that the upgrade path from etch to lenny needs
> to work for etch r0 to lenny r0 as well.

So I've understood, but cannot back this up with any documentation.
Where is this documented? I'm curious as to the background of this
requirement.

> Then the best would be to provide mailman2.1 in lenny and allow an
> upgrade from mailman2.1 to mailman2.2 *in* lenny.

That's certainly possible, but would require (more than) doubling of the
security support for mailman. We're quite motivated to prevent that
where possible.


Thijs
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