Package names... cyrus-imapd-2.4+cyrus-imapd vs cyrus-imapd

[Jeroen van Meeuwen (Kolab Systems)]

On Tuesday, November 23, 2010 04:52:07 pm Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Nov 2010, Ondřej Surý wrote:
> > I was thinking how we can provide our users better experience and I
> > suggest we either:
> > 
> > a) drop the -2.4 suffix at all
> > b) keep the -2.4 suffix and provide cyrus-imapd, cyrus-clients, etc.
> > metapackages (the mysql, postgresql way)
> > 
> > What is your opinion. I think that upstream is stable enough between
> > 2.x releases now, that we could go the a) way.
> 
> (b) please.  Really.  With 10 years of experience with this kind of stuff
> on top.

(b) sounds perfectly reasonable and acceptable -though I won't be doing 
anything similar on the other ends of my spectrum.

Kind regards,

Jeroen van Meeuwen

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