Re: Packaging Balsa 1.4 or 2.0 for Debian GNU/Linux

[Pawel Salek <pawsa theochem kth se>]

On 2002.12.12 09:35 Andrew Lau wrote:
> 	Jules has suggseted that I should ignore 1.4 altogether and
> have 2.0.3 replace the 1.2 .debs. However, I have some doubts as to
> whether 2.0 can successfully convert any preexisting 1.2
> configurations. If there are, I would most likely introduce a balsa2
> package into Debian and keep the balsa package in line with 1.4
> instead.

2.0.x will not automatically convert the configuration. The conversion 
is simple, though:

cp ~/.gnome/balsa ~/.gnome2
cp ~/.gnome_private/balsa ~/.gnome2_private

-pawel