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Re: Apache packages



  at the moment the following Apache versions are available in "pkgsrc":
  - Apache 1.3.41 is in "pkgsrc/www/apache".
  - Apache 2.0.63 is in "pkgsrc/www/apache2".
  - The one true Apache 2.2.10 is in "pkgsrc/www/apache22".
  This is IMHO wrong considering that all version older than 2.2.0 are
  legacy version as far as the Apache foundation is concerned.

  I would therefore like to re-arrange the package like this:
  - Apache 1.3.41 will be moved to "pkgsrc/www/apache13".
  - Apache 2.0.63 will be moved to "pkgsrc/www/apache20".
  - Apache 2.2.10 will be moved to "pkgsrc/www/apache".

I think the pain of renaming (and breaking 'make update', and definitely
pkg_rollin-replace operation) is greater than the pain of this
confusion, especially because 

 the descriptions can be clear in DESCR

 which version is best is a matter of opinion anyway.

I concur that we should leave apache22 as apache22.  I don't care very
1much if we rename apache to apache13 or not.

For packages which have only one version in pkgsrc at a time, it's
reasonable to leave off the version.  Once we have muliple versions at
once, I think all packages should get the version, and once a package
seems to need this we should stay even if we later dropped apache13 and
apache20, because surely apache24 is coming.

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