On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 09:35:47PM +0000, Mark Cunningham wrote: > Can i recommend/request making ircd-hybrid 8 a separate package (such > as ircd-hybrid8)? Given that apparently version 7 and version 8 > servers are incompatible when peering.
Only where cryptlinks are in use. > (and on a minor note, the > config files/option names have changed a good bit where manual fixing > of config files may be required by the user). This is true. > Creating a separate package would stop people having to downgrade in > the future if they upgrade to 8 and therefore can't connect to their > irc network any more. > > I'd be in favour of having a version 8 package available as an option > though to install side by side. I'm going by the (You seem to have been truncated here?) Although you're right that packaging 8 as a separate package would reduce the risk of upgrade problems for people using some configurations including cryptlinks, it would also introduce some more. It would mean that we would still have an abandoned release branch in Debian, with the associated risks that carries; it would increase the maintenance overhead for the Debian maintainer(s) (and bear in mind that I recently adopted this package after a substantial period of it not being maintained so I am particularly nervous about this part); and it would also break the simple upgrade case where people are using it as a simple standalone server with its default configuration (I don't know what the breakdown of users in Debian is like, but there will be at least some of these). My current thinking has been to add a Debconf question when upgrading from 7 to 8 to advise people of the most critical issues with migrating and give them the option of aborting the upgrade (and advice on how resolve the issues). -- Dominic Hargreaves | http://www.larted.org.uk/~dom/ PGP key 5178E2A5 from the.earth.li (keyserver,web,email) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
