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+ This package contains exim 3, an outdated version of the exim Mail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.
