On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 09:57:31AM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > I get this warning every time I run spamassassin: > > > > $ spamassassin < /dev/null > /dev/null > > Oct 25 10:48:42.555 [5732] warn: Argument "0.80_2" isn't numeric in numeric > > ge (>=) at /usr/share/perl5/Mail/SpamAssassin/Plugin/AskDNS.pm line 214. > > This is really annoying as when executing sa-learn by cron, this > spams me! Redirecting stderr to /dev/null is not an acceptable > workaround as this would hide real errors. With sa-learn, one > doesn't even have the keyword "warn:", so that this looks like > an error, so that even grepping out this message is a bit risky > (in addition to being ugly).
Is this really a spamassassin bug? We can certainly work around the version check in spamassassin (particularly in Debian, where Net::DNS::VERSION < 0.34 hasn't been true for a long, long time, but there needs to be a programmatic way of comparing version numbers. Imagine dpkg if the << and >> operators were forbidden. Seems to me that Net::DNS should allow such comparisons, too... noah
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