[pkg-horde] Debian horde package and pear

[Mathieu Parent]

2012/1/6 Rainer Dorsch <rdorsch at web.de>:
> Dear Horde Maintainers,

Hi Rainer,

> I just installed horde4/imp4 and with your excellent package description, it
> was easy to install and setup.

Thanks

> Now I learnt that in imp5, there are many mime enhancements and fixes. For me
> it would be fine to wait until wheezy release to get horde4/imp5. But I did not
> see any newer horde/imp packages in sid/wheezy....

The work is ongoing on this. As Horde is now split in dozens of
packages, it takes time (46 packages are already uploaded, out of 76
to fulfill the  groupware and webmail dependencies).

> Do you expect a horde/imp update for wheezy or are you rather close to orphan
> the package.

We expect Horde4 to be in wheezy (at least framework, groupware suite
and email platform, see http://www.horde.org/apps).

> On #horde, somebody recommended to use pear to install recent horde packages.
> What is your opinion on that? Do you see drawbacks of that method?

Both solutions have pros and cons: With pear, you have the latest
version, and follow closely upstream. With debian packages, Horde is
better integrated (follow file hierarchy with config in /etc, logs in
/var/log, ... ; config preserved accross upgrades, ...).

We now have a solution to easily convert a pear package into a Debian
package. I will call for testing once we have the 76 packages in.

Regards
-- 
Mathieu Parent