Bug#555664: marked as done (Port conflict between asterisk and cyrus-common)

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Mon, 07 Dec 2009, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> On Dec 07, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh at debian.org> wrote:
> > > No, I do not think it would be appropriate to use NEWS.Debian since very
> > > few users would be interested.
> > Can you reconsider adding this to NEWS.Debian for netbase?
> http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=cyrus-imapd-2.2
> 
> The number of affected systems is tiny, about 0.7%.

Many users use upstream cyrus, and it will also hit users of other
sieve-aware systems and clusters, not just cyrus.

> > It is going to break enough installs to cause problems, and while we will
> > add a note in the Cyrus packages, the fact is that the change happens when
> > the user installs the new netbase package makes adding a note just to Cyrus'
> > NEWS.Debian far from optimal.
> People who use stable will get the warning at the right time, people who
> use unstable must accept little inconveniences like these.

I worry about the people who run "testing", actually.

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  Henrique Holschuh