Drop the -X.Y versioning

[Ondřej Surý]

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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