[Pkg-mailman-hackers] Mailman 2 removal - transitional package

Jonas Meurer jonas at freesources.org
Sat May 2 22:56:31 BST 2020


Hi Thijs,

Thijs Kinkhorst:
> On Tue, April 21, 2020 20:10, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> So it seems time to remove Mailman 2.x from unstable now.
>>
>> I propose to not remove it wholesale but change "mailman" to a
>> transitional package depending on mailman3-full. Mailman3-full could
>> Provides: mailman.
>>
>> Do you agree with this?
> 
> Please review this approach:
> https://salsa.debian.org/mailman-team/mailman2/-/merge_requests/2

Looks good to me. We definitely have to take care to mention this in the
Bullseye release notes though. Could you open a bugreport there so this
doesn't get lost when uploading the transitional package?

Kind regards
 jonas


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