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regarding exim: NMU diff for 3.38-18.1
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: exim
Version: 3.36-18
Severity: minor
Hi,
this is the NMU diff for 3.36-18.1, which changes the package
description to show more clearly that exim 3 is deprecated. This has
been discussed on pkg-exim4-devel under Mark's participation.
Greetings
Marc
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17.1-zgsrv
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
diff -u exim-3.36/debian/changelog exim-3.36/debian/changelog
--- exim-3.36/debian/changelog
+++ exim-3.36/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+exim (3.36-18.1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * Non-maintainer upload.
+ * change package description to clearly show that exim 3 is deprecated
+
+ -- Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thu, 22 Jun 2006 14:51:01 +0000
+
exim (3.36-18) unstable; urgency=low
* debian/control: fixed build dependencies now that xlibs-dev now longer
diff -u exim-3.36/debian/control exim-3.36/debian/control
--- exim-3.36/debian/control
+++ exim-3.36/debian/control
@@ -17,15 +17,35 @@
-Description: An MTA (Mail Transport Agent)
- This MTA is rather easier to configure than smail or sendmail.
- It is a drop-in replacement for sendmail/mailq/rsmtp.
- Advanced features include the ability to reject connections from
- known spam sites, and an extremely efficient queue processing
- algorithm.
+Description: An obsolete MTA (Mail Transport Agent), replaced by exim4
+ This package contains exim 3, an outdated version of the exim Mail
+ Transport Agent. This package is not going to be updated any more,
+ and its users are encouraged to update to exim4, the current version
+ of exim, or to migrate towards an entirely different MTA.
+ .
+ There is no automated update path from exim 3 to exim4 since the
+ configuration formats are rather different. Debian's exim4 packages
+ will try to pre-seed their debconf questions from an exim 3
+ configuration that is found on the system. This will work fine for an
+ exim 3 configuration created by eximconfig, the configuration tool
+ used by Debian's exim 3 packages. If you have manually tweaked your
+ exim 3 configuration, you'll most probably need to tweak your new exim
+ 4 configuration as well.
+ .
+ The exim 4 README.Debian file installed to
+ /usr/share/doc/exim4-base/README.Debian.* has more information about
+ updating from exim 3.
Package: eximon
Architecture: any
Priority: extra
Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, exim
-Description: X monitor for the exim mail transport agent.
- This allows administrators to view the exim agent's mail queue
- and logs, and perform a variety of actions on queued messages,
- such as freezing, bouncing and thawing messages.
+Description: X monitor for the obsolete exim 3 MTA, replaced by eximon4
+ This package contains eximon for exim 3, which allows administrators
+ to view the exim agent's mail queue and logs, and perform a variety
+ of actions on queued messages, such as freezing, bouncing and thawing
+ messages.
+ .
+ This package is not going to be updated any more, and its users are
+ encouraged to update to exim4, the current version of exim, or to
+ migrate towards an entirely different MTA.
+ .
+ While migrating towards exim4, this package should be manually replaced
+ by eximon4.
--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message ---
Version: 3.36-18.2+rm
The exim package has been removed from Debian testing, unstable and
experimental, so I am now closing the bugs that were still opened
against it.
For more information about this package's removal, read
http://bugs.debian.org/420191 . That bug might give the reasons why
this package was removed, and suggestions of possible replacements.
Don't hesitate to reply to this mail if you have any question.
Thank you for your contribution to Debian.
Barry deFreese
--- End Message ---
