On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 01:53:10PM +0100, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > > I am not interested in playing bug ping-pong with the libnet-dns-perl > > maintainers, though this bug lies with that package. It has already been > > fixed upstream and in unstable. > > No, I don't think the problem is in libnet-dns-perl but in spamassassin. > SA uses a fragile and inappropriate way to compare version numbers. It's > now triggered by this specific libnet-dns-perl version, but package > maintainers should be allowed to use any valid version number for their > packages.
Agreed, where "valid version number" is defined as something that can be manipulated with arithmetic operators. > As Damyan said, it can be fixed easily in SA in a robust manner: It can be fixed in Debian by simply removing the check, since it will always pass since (at least) oldstable. But I am not interested in a Debian-specific workaround. If you believe this needs to be fixed in SA, please convince upstream. I'm not interested in deviating from upstream's decision that this isn't an SA issue. > > If we want to release jessie without this bug in it, then we need to get > > libnet-dns-perl 0.81 into the release. > > Because of the freeze, it's not currently a reasonable request to the RT > to unblock new upstream releases. Besides, it would only fix this concrete > occurrence but not the root cause of fragile version number comparison. #767750 noah
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