Drop the -X.Y versioning

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh hmh at debian.org
Thu Jun 26 14:10:54 UTC 2014


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'd say the real question is: are we going to keep two concurrent versions
of cyrus imap in unstable?  If yes, we should keep -x.y.  Otherwise, the
need isn't that strong and we could drop the -x.y entirely.

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.

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  Henrique Holschuh



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