On Thursday 03 July 2003 21:36, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 04:17:50PM +0200, Julien LEMOINE wrote: > > First of all, I present my excuses for having started a new debate > > about debconf in debian-devel. > > > > Secondly, to reply to every person who thinks I should have created a > > more "user friendly" migration who did not break backwards compatibility. > > My answer is that I have no time to implement command line support for > > stunnel 4.x. > > It is not your responsibility to fix all of upstream's bugs, but it *is* > your responsibility to protect Debian users from upstream breakage as > much as possible. This upstream change makes no sense from a usability > standpoint; this new stunnel package would be pretty useless to me, and > I wouldn't want to have it automatically installed on my systems if I > were using the previous, working version. By the time a debconf note is > sent, it's too late.
What do you propose ? Do you think Debian must keep old version of stunnel (3.x) for compatibility and do not include new version ? Best Regards -- Julien LEMOINE / SpeedBlue
