Package names... cyrus-imapd-2.4+cyrus-imapd vs cyrus-imapd

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Fri, 03 Dec 2010, Jeroen van Meeuwen (Kolab Systems) wrote:
> On Tuesday, November 23, 2010 04:52:07 pm Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > On Tue, 23 Nov 2010, Ond??ej Surý wrote:
> > > I was thinking how we can provide our users better experience and I
> > > suggest we either:
> > > 
> > > a) drop the -2.4 suffix at all
> > > b) keep the -2.4 suffix and provide cyrus-imapd, cyrus-clients, etc.
> > > metapackages (the mysql, postgresql way)
> > > 
> > > What is your opinion. I think that upstream is stable enough between
> > > 2.x releases now, that we could go the a) way.
> > 
> > (b) please.  Really.  With 10 years of experience with this kind of stuff
> > on top.
> 
> (b) sounds perfectly reasonable and acceptable -though I won't be doing 
> anything similar on the other ends of my spectrum.

We may have to revisit this if the dynamics of cyrus upstream releases
change too much, but this is the kind of decision we can only take after
we've seen what happens with 2.4, 2.5 and 2.6 :-)

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  Henrique Holschuh