severity 295713 normal thanks
Nigel Metheringham wrote:
Future debian releases should either:-Any new installation of debian (from the current unstable branch which will be released soon (hopefully)) will get exim4 installed, so to get exim 3 someone would have to un-install exim 4 first; I think this, and the package priorities (standard vs. extra; note that very few things are extra, generally only things that conflict with standard packages or are deprecated) are sufficient to stop someone installing it on a new system.
* Not provide an exim 3 package and obsolete it so that existing
installations are upgraded to exim4.
* Very clearly mark the package as deprecated so that users do not
continuing using it without taking responsibility for their
actions.
The exim 3 package is only really included for people upgrading from an older version of debian, so that they do not have to convert their config files immediately; while upgrading from 3 to 4 is not difficult it's not entirely automatic, particularly for more complicated installations.
As exim 3 was the standard mail server in the currently stable release of debian, I don't think it would be a good idea to drop it completely from the next release. Probably it should be dropped from the subsequent release.
A warning on installation, or on upgrade from a version too old to have the warning, saying that exim 3 is no longer supported upstream and that we advise people to upgrade to exim4 would probably be a good idea, and I will add this.
If this is rejected then please remove any references to the EximI will leave the reference in but add a big obvious warning that people shouldn't use the lists for support queries relating to exim 3.x.
mailing lists from enclosed documentation because they cannot provide
support for Exim 3.
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