[pkg-squid-devel] squid-4 experimental package

Amos Jeffries squid3 at treenet.co.nz
Mon Feb 27 03:21:41 UTC 2017


On 27/02/2017 4:29 a.m., Luigi Gangitano wrote:
> 
>> Il giorno 26 feb 2017, alle ore 12:43, Amos Jeffries ha scritto:
>>
>> On 26/02/2017 1:42 p.m., Santiago Garcia Mantinan wrote:
>>>> Can someone please sponsor its upload to experimental?
>>>
>>> I'm taking a look at this but I'm wondering if we should keep version 4 of
>>> squid as squid3, comments?
>>
>> I have been wondering the same. But I'm not sure how to go about
>> cleaning up that detail. There are implications for the repository,
>> mailing lists, etc. which need to be considered before attempting.
> 
> 
> Binary packages have already moved to the squid* version, so the matter is only about the source package. I don’t see anything blocking the transition as soon as stretch is out. This list is ‘pkg-squid’ related and we can move the repository with ease: just rename the old squid 2.7 repo to squid-old and then move the squid3 to squid.
> 

Yay! okay looking forward to that.

> Otherwise we could attempt a merge between the two.

IMHO, that would be quite messy and probably not worth the effort.


Amos




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