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 :)
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