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

[Jeroen van Meeuwen (Kolab Systems)]

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> 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 :-)

Agreed. When saying "I won't be doing ..." I forgot to explain that applies to 
the consuming ends I work on (e.g. Kolab Systems repositories and packaging 
endeavors), not the providing end I'm involved with (e.g. cyrusimap.org).

Thanks ;-)

Kind regards,

Jeroen van Meeuwen

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