Bug#378519: cyrus-common-2.2: README.Debian discussion of netnews is confusing

Ross Boylan ross at betterworld.us
Mon Jul 17 03:52:00 UTC 2006


Package: cyrus-common-2.2
Version: 2.2.13-3
Severity: minor

README.Debian says
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3. Removal of netnews support

   Netnews support as it were is dead.  Cyrus 2.2 has a brand new approach,
   and the stuff in Cyrus 2.2 is not functional, and thus removed from this
   package.
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Huh?  I think this is a mangled holdover from the readme for 2.1.

Parsing what's written:
   Netnews support as it were is dead.  Cyrus 2.2 has a brand new approach,
OK, so netnews is 2.1

   and the stuff in Cyrus 2.2 is not functional,
or is it?

   and thus removed from this package.
That sounds prettty definite.  Except there is cyrus-nntp-2.2.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (990, 'stable'), (50, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-2-686-smp
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages cyrus-common-2.2 depends on:
ii  adduser         3.87                     Add and remove users and groups
ii  debconf [debcon 1.5.2                    Debian configuration management sy
ii  dpkg            1.13.21                  package maintenance system for Deb
ii  exim4-daemon-he 4.62-2                   exim MTA (v4) daemon with extended
ii  gawk            1:3.1.5.dfsg-4           GNU awk, a pattern scanning and pr
ii  libc6           2.3.6-15                 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdb4.2        4.2.52-23.1              Berkeley v4.2 Database Libraries [
ii  libsasl2        2.1.19.dfsg1-0.2         Authentication abstraction library
ii  libsnmp9        5.2.2-3                  NET SNMP (Simple Network Managemen
ii  libssl0.9.8     0.9.8b-2                 SSL shared libraries
ii  libwrap0        7.6.dbs-9                Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra
ii  libzephyr3      2.1.20010518.SNAPSHOT-15 The original "Instant Message" sys
ii  netbase         4.25                     Basic TCP/IP networking system
ii  perl            5.8.8-4                  Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 

Versions of packages cyrus-common-2.2 recommends:
ii  cyrus-admin-2.2               2.2.13-3   Cyrus mail system (administration 
ii  cyrus-imapd-2.2               2.2.13-3   Cyrus mail system (IMAP support)

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