[Pkg-sogo-maintainers] Bug#864956: sogo: Please provide co-installable SOGo 2 packages

[Gerald Turner]

Package: sogo
Version: 3.2.6-2
Severity: wishlist

Dear Maintainer,

Inverse seems to be committed to maintaining parallel SOGo 2 and SOGo 3
releases.  Their initial v3.0.0 release announcement¹ contained the
statement: “Version 2 will continue to be maintained and it is possible
to run both versions 2 and 3 concurrently on the same data set to ease
the transition.”  For the past year and a half, just about every 3.x
release had an accompanying 2.x release.

The upstream code repository (now moved to github) has a v2 branch, and
their build tools, and installed files, haven't diverged much.  The SOPE
library dependency can be shared between both versions.  I attempted to
create a 'sogo2' package myself, however I hit a wall with installation
paths like:

  /usr/lib/GNUstep/WOxElemBuilders-4.9/SOGoElements.wox/SOGoElements
  /usr/lib/sogo/libNGCards.so.4.9.0

I've considered pursuing this further, possibly hacking on the SOGo
configure script to rename some of these paths, but first I wanted to
get an idea if this is at all feasible by opening this bug report.

¹ https://sogo.nu/news/2016/article/sogo-v300-released.html

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (701, 'testing'), (500, 'testing-updates')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages sogo depends on:
ii  adduser              3.115
ii  init-system-helpers  1.48
ii  libc6                2.24-11
ii  libcurl3-gnutls      7.52.1-5
ii  libgcc1              1:6.3.0-18
ii  libglib2.0-0         2.50.3-2
ii  libgnustep-base1.24  1.24.9-3.1
ii  libgnutls30          3.5.8-5+deb9u1
ii  liblasso3            2.5.0-5+b1
ii  libmemcached11       1.0.18-4.1
ii  libobjc4             6.3.0-18
ii  libsbjson2.3         2.3.2-3
ii  libsope1             3.2.6-1
ii  lsb-base             9.20161125
ii  sogo-common          3.2.6-2
ii  systemd              232-25
ii  tmpreaper            1.6.13+nmu1+b2
ii  zip                  3.0-11+b1

Versions of packages sogo recommends:
ii  memcached  1.4.33-1

Versions of packages sogo suggests:
ii  postgresql  9.6+181

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/cron.d/sogo [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/etc/cron.d/sogo'
/etc/default/sogo changed [not included]
/etc/sogo/sogo.conf [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/etc/sogo/sogo.conf'

-- no debconf information

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