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  Stretch => Buster: obsolete packages Jesper Dybdal <jd-debian-user@dybdal.dk> - 2020-10-23 15:00 +0200
    Re: Stretch => Buster: obsolete packages Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de> - 2020-10-23 17:20 +0200
    Re: Stretch => Buster: obsolete packages Clive Standbridge <list-user@tgstandbridges.plus.com> - 2020-10-23 18:30 +0200
      Re: Stretch => Buster: obsolete packages Jesper Dybdal <jd-debian-user@dybdal.dk> - 2020-10-25 18:40 +0100

#228145 — Stretch => Buster: obsolete packages

I use squirrelmail, and squirrelmail uses php5.

Somehow both of those survived the upgrade from Jessie to Stretch (at a 
time when I was not aware of the potential problem), and squirrelmail 
still works fine.

Can I expect that they will also survive the upgrade to Buster?

(Yes, I know I should switch to a supported webmailsolution, but I 
haven't got around to doing it yet...)

-- 
Jesper Dybdal
https://www.dybdal.dk

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#228147

Jesper Dybdal <jd-debian-user@dybdal.dk> wrote:

> I use squirrelmail, and squirrelmail uses php5.

> Somehow both of those survived the upgrade from Jessie to Stretch (at
> a time when I was not aware of the potential problem), and
> squirrelmail still works fine.

> Can I expect that they will also survive the upgrade to Buster?

Expect? No. Unless you keep all the old and insecure packages and work
around possible package conflicts.

Besides: Squirrelmail is more or less dead. There is one lone sole
comitting to the code base and trying to keep it updated but I would not
trust any security on this.

My advise: Scrap Squirrelmail and migrate to Roundcube.

Grüße,
Sven.

-- 
Sigmentation fault. Core dumped.

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#228148

> Somehow both of those survived the upgrade from Jessie to Stretch (at a time when I was not aware of the potential problem), and squirrelmail still works fine.
> 
> Can I expect that they will also survive the upgrade to Buster?

Yes. I have done that, and the old squirrelmail package remained
installed in buster. I don't remember any special effort to keep it,
but it was a while ago.

You'd better make sure you don't have apt configured to automatically
answer yes, so you can choose what gets removed.

I can't tell you whether squirrelmail will continue to work in
buster. It wasn't working for me, and I removed it before realising my
immediate problem was an expired SSL certificate, not squirrelmail
itself.

-- 
Cheers,
Clive

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#228206

On 2020-10-23 18:02, Clive Standbridge wrote:
>> Can I expect that they will also survive the upgrade to Buster?
> Yes. I have done that, and the old squirrelmail package remained
> installed in buster. I don't remember any special effort to keep it,
> but it was a while ago.
>
> You'd better make sure you don't have apt configured to automatically
> answer yes, so you can choose what gets removed.
>
> I can't tell you whether squirrelmail will continue to work in
> buster. It wasn't working for me, and I removed it before realising my
> immediate problem was an expired SSL certificate, not squirrelmail
> itself.
>

Thanks to Clive and Sven for the responses.  I'll see what the upgrade 
attempt brings, and at a later time look at alternatives to Squirrelmail 
- Roundcube seems to be a popular choice, so I'll lok into that.

-- 
Jesper Dybdal
https://www.dybdal.dk

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