[Pkg-Cyrus-imapd-Debian-devel] RFC: Renaming the packages

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Wed, 30 Nov 2005, Sven Mueller wrote:
> Well, I have no strong feelings regarding the rename of the 2.2
> packages. However I would not like to rename the 2.1 packages, since
> that would (as Benjamin pointed out) make upgrades from sarge to etch
> more difficult (either by requiring manual intervention or by using
> transitional packages).

Manual intervention is a no-no.  Unless etch takes so long to ship that we
end up removing 2.1, transitional packages would have to be used.  And I
really have nothing against using transitional packages, they are safe and
they work.  And *nobody* will convince me I am inflating the archive given
the ammount of substandard crap people have been uploading later :-)

> > The rationale for a possible renaming of the packages is that "cyrus##-*" is
> > really awkward, and does NOT reflect the upstream name of the application at
> > all.
> 
> The good thing however was that this kept the cyrus-imapd related
> packages together in the package list. After the rename, the cyrus-sasl
> packages will get mixed in. This is no big problem though.

That was the reason I used cyrus21- and cyrus22- (even if I never uploaded
any of the five or six attempts at cyrus22- :P).

However, nowadays we have package tags and far more intelligent frontends,
so I feel better searchability is now much more important.

And cyrus-sasl getting in the middle is not that bad, it WAS created because
of cyrus-imapd anyway :-)  and cyrus-imapd will always depend on it very
heavily...

> > What do you guys think about the whole idea? and what about the cyrus-common
> > to cyrus-base rename?
> 
> Why rename -common to -base? Most other packages I know of also use the
> -common approach AFAIR.

-common sounds to me like something related to alternative packages, while
-base seems to more correctly describe the function of the package.

But this is really a no-issue.  I don't feel strongly about it at all, and
if you think we should leave it at -common, -common it is.

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