On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 02:41:12PM -0400, Gleydson Mazioli da Silva wrote: > package: wnpp > severity: wishlist > > Hi all, > > I intent to package the new mailman 2.1 series. I've sent mail some time ago > to Tollef asking if there was any problem in maintaining that new series, but > I got no > response (I hope that Tollef see this message :-). >
One more email is not a bad idea. > I'm working for a time as list master for listas.cipsga.org.br, creating > some useful scripts to easy the list administration, backup, etc. for > list masters. > > This new release has some interesting features, including VERP support, > emergency moderation, content type filtering, multi language support, etc. > > I've started that packaging from scratch and I wish to include all features > mentioned above as easy user selection for mailman installation. > > Initially, I've named this package as mailman21, so it will not conflict > with the original mailman package, so the list administrator could do the > migration without some problems. I've writed all steps to do the upgrade > from mailman 2.0 release to 2.1 release. > > If no objection, I'll upload the package. > Uhm, what's the reason to have 2 packages for the same program? Are there incompatible? Cannot 2.1 be run in 2.0 compatible mode? IMHO someone should have a very solid reason to prefer separate packaging instead of upgrading. You could probably produce a patch to integrate your scripts in current 2.0 or propose an upgrading path to 2.1. -- Francesco P. Lovergine