Bug#324480: dovecot-imapd: Incorrectly Conflicts: with imap-server
Il giorno lun, 22/08/2005 alle 11.57 +0100, Edward Speyer ha scritto: Package: dovecot-imapd Severity: important While trying to make the transition from uw-imapd to dovecot-imapd, I find I am unable to have both packages installed concurrently due to the Conflicts: section for dovecot-imapd. (I would like to test dovecot before going live with it, and to have my old imapd running during this test period.) Surely it should be possible to have both packages installed at once? Is there a technical reason why it would be bad to have both IMAPDs running? You are right, we'll remove the conflicts field with the next upload (dovecot-1.0.alpha1). Thanks for the suggestion, -- Fabio Tranchitella http://www.kobold.it Studio Tranchitella Assoc. Professionale http://www.tranchitella.it _ 1024D/7F961564, fpr 5465 6E69 E559 6466 BF3D 9F01 2BF8 EE2B 7F96 1564 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Bug#324480: dovecot-imapd: Incorrectly Conflicts: with imap-server
Il giorno mar, 23/08/2005 alle 11.31 +0100, Edward ha scritto: I actually built a custom dovecot package without either the Provides: imap-server or Conflicts: imap-server because the Provides: imap-server from dovecot conflicted with the Conflicts: imap-server of uw-imapd, my previous IMAP daemon. I've done something similar when I had to migrate a customer's mail server from courier to dovecot, but in that case courier did not conflict with imap-server. I think the conflicts line is there for the same tcp port needed problem, and its use is allowed by debian policy (7.3): A special exception is made for packages which declare a conflict with their own package name, or with a virtual package which they provide see below): this does not prevent their installation, and allows a package to conflict with others providing a replacement for it. You use this feature when you want the package in question to be the only package providing some feature. However, I think we should get rid of all these imap-server and pop3-server conflicts: it is quite common to have two or more imap/pop3 server installed. Perhaps I should take this to a debian-* list. If I were to do so, I would value your opinion as a DD and imap-server package maintainer. Yes, could you please ask on debian-devel list? -- Fabio Tranchitella [EMAIL PROTECTED].''`. Proud Debian GNU/Linux developer, admin and user.: :' : `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~kobold/ `- _ 1024D/7F961564, fpr 5465 6E69 E559 6466 BF3D 9F01 2BF8 EE2B 7F96 1564 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Bug#324480: dovecot-imapd: Incorrectly Conflicts: with imap-server
On Tue, 2005-08-23 12:06, Fabio Tranchitella wrote: Il giorno lun, 22/08/2005 alle 11.57 +0100, Edward Speyer ha scritto: Package: dovecot-imapd Severity: important While trying to make the transition from uw-imapd to dovecot-imapd, I find I am unable to have both packages installed concurrently due to the Conflicts: section for dovecot-imapd. (I would like to test dovecot before going live with it, and to have my old imapd running during this test period.) Surely it should be possible to have both packages installed at once? Is there a technical reason why it would be bad to have both IMAPDs running? You are right, we'll remove the conflicts field with the next upload (dovecot-1.0.alpha1). I actually built a custom dovecot package without either the Provides: imap-server or Conflicts: imap-server because the Provides: imap-server from dovecot conflicted with the Conflicts: imap-server of uw-imapd, my previous IMAP daemon. There are lots of other 'imap-server' packages that have the problem of not wanting to co-install with other 'imap-server' packages: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ grep-dctrl -sPackage,Provides,Conflicts -FProvides,Conflicts 'imap-server' /var/lib/apt/lists/*Packages Package: bincimap-run Provides: imap-server Conflicts: imap-server Package: courier-imap Provides: imap-server Conflicts: imap-server Package: cyrus-imapd Provides: imap-server Conflicts: imap, imapd, imap-4, imap-server Package: cyrus21-imapd Provides: imap-server Conflicts: imap-server Package: dovecot-imapd Provides: imap-server Conflicts: imap-server Package: mailutils-imap4d Provides: imap-server Conflicts: imap-server Package: uw-imapd Provides: imap-server Conflicts: imapd, imap-4, imap, imap-server, logcheck ( 1.1.1-9) Either: - What I originally wanted to do was extra-ordinary, and that, on balance, it is better for any package that provides imap-server to also conflict with imap-server - All these packages incorrectly Conflict with imap-server, which stops syadmins co-installing two imap servers in order to do tests and make smooth transitions[*] Perhaps I should take this to a debian-* list. If I were to do so, I would value your opinion as a DD and imap-server package maintainer. Thanks, Ed [*] Obviously, massive bias there on my part :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#324480: dovecot-imapd: Incorrectly Conflicts: with imap-server
Package: dovecot-imapd Severity: important While trying to make the transition from uw-imapd to dovecot-imapd, I find I am unable to have both packages installed concurrently due to the Conflicts: section for dovecot-imapd. (I would like to test dovecot before going live with it, and to have my old imapd running during this test period.) Surely it should be possible to have both packages installed at once? Is there a technical reason why it would be bad to have both IMAPDs running? -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.4.31 Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
