Alvaro Lopez Ortega dijo [Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 06:54:23PM +0200]:
> >I understand you want to encourage users to be aware of features and
> >prefered habits, but distributions will try to make things transparent
> >- A user might not even care about which webserver he is running, he
> >should only care that it runs fine!
> 
> Cherokee did not use the "Generic Balancer" module in the default
> configuration.  If the module is in use, it's because the user added
> explicitly a rule.
> 
> In my understanding, 'Generic Balancer' is a specialized enough
> module to let the user make the change by hand.  I mean, I bet that
> someone who configured a generic TCP connection balancer in his web
> server will like to know about its deprecation and replacement
> module. Besides, the bast majority of the users will not realized of
> the change just because they don't use the module.
> 
> I don't know what the best upgrading strategy for Debian is. I guess
> that if " = mirror$" were matched in the configuration file, the
> user would be warned at the end of the installation.

Ok — I get your point and recognize its validity. Still, for future
such cases, *please* try to plan this kind of changes at least a
couple of releases in advance, throwing deprecation notices at
startup, instead of just suddenly failing to work.

Still, my point in long-time maintenance holds. I'm not trying to
threaten in any way, but trying to understand what is the best, least
stressful way to work on this. Of course, I refuse to ask my users to
just "use unstable", as unstable is *not* meant for regular users.

Greetings,

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