Drop the -X.Y versioning

[Ondřej Surý]

And the work has been uploaded to experimental and pushed to git.

I'll do some more testing with the version in experimental and after
the current unstable version migrates to testing, I'll be uploading
the versionless to unstable.

O.

On Thu, Jun 26, 2014, at 20:46, Ondřej Surý wrote:
> Hi Henrique,
> 
> On Thu, Jun 26, 2014, at 16:10, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > On Thu, 26 Jun 2014, Ondřej Surý wrote:
> > > I suggest we drop the -X.Y versioning for next cyrus major release.
> > > 
> > > I think our migration scripts are mostly robust to handle the
> > > transitions,
> > > so I don't see any reason to keep those versions side to side.
> > > 
> > > Objections? Comments? Appraisals? :)
> > 
> > Well, it will be more difficult to go back to -x.y later if we change our
> > mind.
> 
> I am not sure about that, since we already have cyrus-imapd
> lightweight package depending on latest -x.y, so it wouldn't be
> that hard. Anyway...
> 
> > I'd say the real question is: are we going to keep two concurrent
> > versions of cyrus imap in unstable? 
> 
> I don't see a reason for that since 2.x release.
> 
> > If yes, we should keep -x.y.  Otherwise, the
> > need isn't that strong and we could drop the -x.y entirely.
> 
> Ok, so I guess we agree on that.
> 
> > We should keep in mind that nowadays cyrus really is much easier to
> > update even between major releases, often handling all the on-disk
> > update by itself on access, and that downgrading is _not_ supported.
> 
> Yes, that was exactly my line of thought.
> 
> Ondrej
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