On Mon, 2011-06-13 at 20:16 +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> On Sun, 2011-06-12 at 22:54 +0200, Ansgar Burchardt wrote:
> > There is another possible issue with the patch: after an upgrade the
> > user might have to restart all processes using akonadi (including the
> > backend) as new processes will no longer use the old socket and thus
> > fail.  There has been one report for upgrading to akonadi 1.3.1-4 in
> > testing that looked like this[1], but the submitter said it happened
> > only after restarting the computer (which should not happen).
[...]
> Given the timescales involved, maybe instead a NEWS.Debian file
> explaining that the configuration file is no longer honoured and that
> processes might need restarting?  If it's likely to affect a large
> number of users, we could consider mentioning the issues in the point
> release announcement e-mail (assuming anyone reads them); I'd just like
> to avoid a slew of "the point release broke my KDE" bug reports if
> possible.

As discussed briefly at Debconf - well, at Zagreb airport :-) - this
still seems like the best approach to me, unless (or maybe even if) you
happen to have a targeted and tested patch for supporting both locations
already.

Regards,

Adam




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