On Fri, 2012-12-28 at 20:47 -0500, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote:
> On Sat, 29 Dec 2012, Gedalya wrote:
> 
> > How so? Everyone following testing had -2 up until now, not -6. How is this 
> > going to go away in terms of upgrading existing installations?
> 
> To be honest the main upgrades we cae about are squeeze -> wheezy and 
> squeeze doesn't have 2.x.
> 
> Testing/unstable users are asked for forgiveness for occasionally being 
> used as guinea pigs though we certainly try to avoid breakage as much as 
> possible.

And I do use my own personal mail server as a guinea pig before ever
upgrading packages on production servers, so this deal does work out in
the end... :-)

> 
> > I have a suggestion, tell me if this makes any sense:
> > In preinst, Search the existing config for a namespace inbox {} entry, and 
> > if 
> > none exists and no 15-mailboxes.conf file exists, create one containing an 
> > informative comment. This should draw the user's attention to the right 
> > places at the right time during ucf. Basically the user will be prompted 
> > about updating a 15-mailboxes.conf rather than just dumping a new one which 
> > silently and unintuitively makes the server unusable.
> 
> What you say makes sense but we are in a freeze so I can't make big 
> changes like that.  The real mistake was not including 15-mailboxes.conf 
> in the first place.
> 

OK gotcha, at least I know I didn't sound like an idiot :D

Thanks!


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