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[Cefiar <address@concealed>]

On Wednesday 13 December 2006 17:19, elijah wrote:
> Cefiar wrote:
> > The other option is probably easier though:
> >  Since nothing depends on sympa, it should be easy to get the package
> > removed from Debian, at least for the Etch release.
> >
> > Yes, you heard right. I'm suggesting that the package gets removed. The
> > old package is doing nothing for sympa, and in fact potentially causing
> > more problems for sympa's reputation (and workload answering questions
> > related to old versions) than anything.
>
> I support removing sympa from debian. As an avid debian and sympa user,
> it pains me to see people using the packaged version, and the questions
> generated on the lists regarding ancient problems.

I would however suggest that any replacement repository consider a few things:

1. Keeping up to date
 The current repository listed on the sympa website is a version for 5.1.

2. Stable and Latest repositories
 Stable being the latest "stable" release, at least in the mind of the 
maintainer ie: latest release version with any necessary patches (such as the 
template update from the latest alpha to make IE7 work). Latest being either 
a regular pull from CVS, or the latest alpha/beta/etc at the time.

3. Explicit migration support from the old Debian package version. I've not 
checked the package from the repository listed on the sympa website, but I 
know that upgrading from the old version did cause some people large amounts 
of pain.

BTW: I have some holidays coming up, and as at least one site I manage needs 
to go to a later version of Sympa, I'm going to look at the package from the 
repository listed on the sympa website and see about updating it to the 
latest version. If someone is already working on this, it'd be good to know 
and I'd be happy to help when I get the time.

-- 
 Stuart Young - aka Cefiar - address@concealed